Toshiba today announced two new enterprise solid state drives (eSSDs) series ? the HK3E2 for value endurance workloads and the HK3R2 drive for read intensive workloads. These 6Gbit/s SATA enterprise SSDs join Toshiba?s portfolio of enterprise storage solutions featuring a variety of endurance ratings.

Available in capacities up to 800GB in a 2.5-inch standard form-factor (7mm Z-height), the HK3E2 is designed for mainstream enterprise applications such as exchange mail servers, web servers, database servers, indexing servers and data center storage workloads. The series has a three drive writes per day (DWPD) endurance specification for five years with a random 4KiB enterprise workload.

Available in capacities up to 960GB in a 2.5-inch standard form factor (7mm Z-height), the HK3R2 is designed for read intensive applications and workloads such as read caching, video streaming and data center storage. It has an endurance rating of one DWPD for five years with a random 4KiB enterprise workload.

Both eSSDs are equipped with power loss and end-to-end data protection features with a common controller and mechanical design. Additionally, they incorporate Toshiba?s proprietary QSBC (Quadruple Swing-By Code) error-correction technology, an error correction code (ECC), which helps protect customer data from corruption caused by NAND flash memory media wear. The series also feature both a Toshiba-designed SATA SSD controller and Toshiba 19nm second generation MLC NAND flash.

Toshiba is curently sampling the HK3E2 and HK3R2 Series.