14 DAY TRIAL // Toshiba gained recognition during a competition recently held in Japan, by the Agency for Natural Resources and Energy from the Energy Conservation Center, Japan (ECCJ).
The agency conducted some tests to see which solid state drives really excelled at power saving, and the results led to Toshiba's MKx001GRZB being named the winner.
What this means is that Toshiba now has a Director-General’s Prize to brag about.
The members of the MKx001GRZB line use the 2.5-inch form factor and use 32nm enterprise-grade single-level cell NAND Flash chips, eSLC for short.
They also boast the 6 Gbps SAS interface (Serial Attached SCSI). That said, they distinguished themselves through a 70/30 read/write ratio.
They also exhibited an improvement in random access performance in terms of IOPS per watt (IOPS/W1) of 250 times compared to Toshiba's enterprise HDDs.
“As the only SSD supplier vertically integrated with NAND flash and enterprise HDD expertise, Toshiba is able to offer energy efficient products without sacrificing performance,” said Joel Hagberg, vice president of enterprise marketing at Toshiba Storage Products Business Unit.
“Toshiba is honored to be recognized by this respected agency for our work in delivering world-class and efficient storage solutions.”
In addition to energy, the MKx001GRZB SSD saves on floor space required for storage systems in cloud computing and data centers.
Thus, the low power consumption of 6.5 Watts during operation and the power efficiency rating of 13,800 IOPS/Watt in random read operations is just half of what enabled it to earn the grand prize.
The award program was conducted by ECCJ with the assistance of METI and has the objective of promoting energy conservation and cultivating industrial fields involved in such endeavors.
The world may not even be close to proving worthy of being called an energy-conserving society, but at least it is making small steps towards that lofty goal.