TOKYO — (BUSINESS WIRE) — February 23, 2016 — Toshiba Corporation’s (TOKYO:6502) Semiconductor & Storage Products Company today announced the launch of the “HK4R Series” and the “HK4E Series” of enterprise SSDs integrating NAND chips fabricated with 15nm MLC process technology. Sample shipments start from today.

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Toshiba: "HK4* Series" of Enterprise SSDs Using 15nm MLC NAND (Photo: Business Wire)

The new products are Toshiba’s first enterprise SSDs integrating 15nm MLC NAND flash memory. The line-up including products with double the capacity of conventional Toshiba products^[1] were developed utilizing the technology. These SSDs expand Toshiba’s enterprise storage solutions and flexibly meet various diversified requirements of the rapidly growing enterprise market.

The SSDs are equipped with Toshiba’s proprietary QSBC (Quadruple Swing-By Code) error correction technology, a highly efficient error correction code (ECC). Along with the power loss protection and data protection features, it helps strengthen the protection of customer data and enhances reliability.

The HK4R Series is capable of one DWPD^[2] endurance, and is available in capacities up to 1920GB^[3], and suited for enterprise applications including web servers, files servers, media streaming, video-on-demand, search engines and warm data storage.

The HK4E Series of value-endurance drives offer an endurance level of three DWPD and capacities up to 1600GB. It is suited for e-mail servers and data centers.

Toshiba will continue strengthening its SSD lineup, meeting the various needs of users and leading the continuously expanding SSD market.

Outline of the New Products