Anyone patiently waiting to get their hands on the
new Toshiba RC100 Series value optimised NVMe solid state drive (SSD). Will be
pleased to know that Toshiba has today announced availability of the RC100
Series of NVMe (NVM Express ) M.2 solid state drives. The new SSD drives are
available in capacities of 120 240 and 480 GBs and are equipped with 64-layer,
3-bit-per-cell TLC (triple-level cell) BiCS FLASH technology control by
Toshiba’s controller which has been developed in-house.
Offering Random Read/Write Speed Up to
150,000/110,000 IOPS and Sequential Read/Write Speed of up to 1600/1100 MB/s
with Endurance up to 240 TB of Total Bytes Written (TBW). “With the RC100
Series, we set out to address a major complaint that users have with NVMe
drives – their expense,” said Alex Mei, vice president marketing, consumer SSDs
and storage outbound marketing at TMA.