A division of Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc. and the industry pioneer in small form factor enterprise-class and mobile hard disk drives (HDDs), Toshiba Storage Device Division

(SDD), today announced a new high-capacity, high-performance, power-efficient small form factor product line for enterprise applications. With top capacity at 600GB(1), the new MBF family

represents the industry's highest-capacity 2.5-inch enterprise-class HDD and features Toshiba's first enterprise-class self-encrypting drive (SED) offering.

The introduction of the MBF series demonstrates the successful integration of Toshiba and Fujitsu's HDD business last year and illustrates Toshiba's capability and commitment to building

further leadership in the enterprise market. This series meets the exacting standards of the enterprise market with 10,025 RPM spin speed and a 6Gb/s SAS interface for use in mid-range volume

servers, mainstream storage arrays, blade and rack-mount servers and other business-critical, power-conscious, data-intensive applications.

Using a new enhanced power condition state, which enables the HDD to spin at a lower RPM when not in use, the MBF series reduces power consumption up to 28 percent.

Certain models of the MBF series offer an option of drive-based encryption designed to the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) Enterprise Security Subsystem Class specification. The TCG

specifications provide standards-based protocols to promote industry-wide adoption by HDD vendors, security management independent software vendors (ISVs), independent hardware

vendors (IHVs) and storage system designers. (With Input from Agencies)