Today Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. announced its latest SATA SSD aimed at the consumer market, the TR200. This new drive will feature Toshiba’s latest 3-bit-per-cell TLC (triple-level cell) BiCS FLASH. The TR200 will be geared for those on a budget that want to take advantage of 64-layer 3D flash memory.
The Toshiba TR200 will act as an upgrade from HDDs for both notebooks and/or desktops. Toshiba states that the drive will be affordable (though they didn’t give any pricing information yet) and easy to set up. The drive claims sequential performance numbers of 550MB/s read and 525MB/s write and random performance of 80K IOPS read and 87K IOPS write, all while using much less power than a standard HDD.
This marks the first SATA-based retail product shipping with the 64-Layer 3-bit-per-cell TLC (triple-level cell) BiCS FLASH. Toshiba is aiming the product at entry-level DIY system builders and first time upgraders from HDDs. This also marks a change in consumer products for the company. From here on retail SSDs will be shipping under the Toshiba brand name (OCZ branding products will be a sub-series). The newly branding Toshiba SSDs will have the same performance OCZ drives were known for and target the same markets.
Toshiba TR200 specifications:
- Form Factor: 2.5”
- Capacity: 240GB, 480GB, 960GB
- NAND: 64-layer 3D BiCS TLC
- Performance
- Sequential Read: Up to 550MB/s
- Sequential Write: Up to 525MB/s
- Random Read: Up to 80,000KiB IOPS
- Random Write: Up to 87,000KiB IOPS
- Endurance
- TBW : 60 ~ 240
- MTBF: 1.5 million hours
- Power
- DEVSLP (max.): Up to 10 mW
- Active: 1.6W (960GB)
- Warranty: 3-year
Availability
Toshiba will be demoing the drive at the China Digital Entertainment Expo & Conference (ChinaJoy) in Shanghai, China from July 27-30 and GamesCom in Cologne, Germany from August 22-26. The drive is expected to be available this fall.
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