Toshiba unveils automotive-grade 200GB tough expostulate
200GB Small Form Factor HDD Sets a New Industry Standard, Targeting a Increasing Capacity Needs of In-Vehicle as well as Industrial Applications
IRVINE, Calif., April 14 /PRNewswire/ — Toshiba Storage Device Division (SDD), a pioneer in small form cause hard hoop drives (HDDs), currently strengthened the onallsides as the world’s leading manufacturer of automotive-grade HDDs by introducing the brand-new HDD with 200 gigabytes(1) (GB) of storage genius in the single-platter pattern.
The 4,200 RPM SATA MK2060GSC is a highest-capacity automotive-grade HDD accessible as well as provides car systems manufacturers with a high-capacity storage indispensable to urge telematics, navigation as well as party systems, quite as these systems have been being written to promulgate with information as well as calm sources outside a automobile. This high-capacity automotive storage line will capacitate carmakers as well as aftermarket vendors to broach an softened in-vehicle user knowledge, while enhancing motorist reserve.
This key builds upon Toshiba’s existing automotive product line. As of March 2010, Toshiba has shipped 14 million automotive-grade HDDs to a worldwide marketplace, as well as had 75 percent tellurian marketplace share(2) for shipments in 2009, according to a company’s internal sales interpretation. In addition, IDC has foresee which more classes of automobiles will increasingly suggest bureau in-dashboard infotainment systems which yield audio, video as well as the variety of navigation report to passengers commencement in model year 2012(3). Consumer enterprise for multimedia applications as well as navigation systems integrated into cars has fueled demand for high-capacity HDDs, ensuring emigration of these applications over a reward vehicle marketplace as well as into a mainstream.
The MK2060GSC targets telematics and infotainment applications, in that proven opening as well as genius have been critical. This product line represents a poignant creation in commercial automotive-grade HDD technology, as it doubles a maximum storage genius accessible. Other technical benefits to systems manufacturers embody the 78 percent alleviation in internal send rates compared to homogeneous products on a market, as good as the faster find time of 12 milliseconds as well as extremely quiet “wordless find” operation of 23dB. These features have a MK2060GSC preferred for multimedia, navigation as well as in-vehicle video recording applications, that need the multiple of tall storage capacities as well as fast interpretation stop.
In addition to the high capacity, a MK2060GSC offers well-developed trustworthiness. This HDD can wardoff rise variations of -300 to 12,000 meters during non-operating as well as -300 to 5,650 meters whilst handling, as good as handling temperatures of -30 to +85°C. The brand-new HDD additionally delivers high levels of handling startle insurgency as well as extended quivering insurgency. Consequently, telematics systems manufacturers deploying this product in high-quality cars can be assured their products will duty routinely, notwithstanding impassioned environmental conditions.
“The subsequent era of vehicle infotainment, connectivity as well as location-awareness applications will need some-more creation as well as positively higher storage genius,” said Scott Wright, product physicaleducationinstructor for Toshiba Storage Device Division. “Our commitment to means one after another enrichment in this product difficulty continues to onallsides Toshiba as the personality for storage components. We have been perfectly positioned to provide car systems manufacturers with a high-quality, arguable storage technology they need to gain upon an evolving marketplace opportunity.”
In further to a MK2060GSC, Toshiba additionally debuts the MK1060GSC as partial of this automotive-grade product array, charity 100GB of storage genius. All of Toshiba’s automotive-grade HDDs have been befitting for make use of in many industrial applications requiring lengthened heat toleration. Continuing Toshiba’s commitment to shortening environmental stroke, these HDDs have been fully agreeable with RoHS law as well as have been halogen-free.
Information as well as Availability
Toshiba’s MKxxGSC array will be commercially accessible in a third quarter of 2010 for industrial placement and OEMs. These HDDs have been now being sampled to comparison partners for gift. For some-more information upon Toshiba’s line of industry-leading small form cause tough drives, revisit www.toshibastorage.com.
