Toshiba Takes 2.5" AL13SE Hard Drives To Enterprise Users
Toshiba claims that these will withstand "mission-critical" pressures, with a 25% increase in power-on hour reliability from prior generation units. The AL13SE series is also available mounted in a 3.5" bracket for legacy severs. No pricing information is available just yet, but the full spec run-down is below.
AL13SEB900 AL13SEB600 AL13SEB450 AL13SEB300
Capacity 900GB 600GB 450GB 300GBAverage seek time: Read (typ.) 3.7ms
Write (typ.) 4.1ms
Interface SAS 2.0
Interface speed 6 Gb/s
Rotation speed 10,500 RPM
Buffer memory 64 MB
External dimensions (W)x(D)x(H) 69.85mm(2.75")x100.45mm(3.95")x 15.00mm(0.59")
Weight 240 g. or less
Power Consumption: Idle (ready) 4.7 watts (max)
Idle (low rotational speed) 2.7 watts (max)
Acoustic (Ready) 30 dB
Vibration: Operating 9.8 m/s2 (1.0G) 20 to 300 Hz
Non-operating 49 m/s2 (5.0G) 20 to 300 Hz
Shock: Operating 980 m/s2 (100G) 1ms
Non-operating 3,920 m/s2 (400G) 2ms