Toshiba Introduces 2.4TB HDD with 10,500rpm Rotation Speed

Toshiba has announced a hard drive with storage capacity of 2.4TB and rotation speed of 10,500 rpm. The hard drive is part of Toshiba’s AL15SE series of enterprise storage products.

Toshiba has started supplying test models of the AL15SE series to its customers. The AL15SE series of enterprise performance drives consists of several models, with storage sizes of 300GB, 600GB, 900GB, 1.2TB, 1.8TB and 2.4TB. Some models, such as the 2.4TB drive, are advanced format models with emulation of 512byte sectors. These HDDs have a throughput of 260MB/s. The 300GB, 600GB, 900GB and 1.2TB drives will also be available with native 512byte sectors. Its throughput is 234MB/s, except for the 300GB model, which has a speed of 222.5MB/s.

These are 2.5″ HDDs with a SAS 12Gbit/s interface, buffer of 128MB and latency of 2.86ms. Until now, the highest storage capacity of a Toshiba enterprise HDD with rotation speed of 10,500 rpm was 1.8TB. That was the AL14SE series. Toshiba also has three series of enterprise drives with rotational speeds of 15,000 rpm, but the company would not expand these series because SSDs here now have a more favorable price per gigabyte.