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Toshiba Announces High-Performance, Power-Efficient Solid State Drives
Targeted at Broad Range of Notebook, Desktop, Embedded and Commercial
Markets


Industry's first SSDs with 19 nanometer NAND flash technology for high
performance, leveraging Toshiba's 25 years of NAND flash leadership

IRVINE, Calif., June 4, 2012 - Toshiba Storage Products, Business Unit
of Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc., a committed technology
leader, today announced a new lineup of solid state drives (SSDs) that
provides both high performance and energy efficiency for the most
data-intensive and energy-sensitive applications. The THNSNF drives
are the world's first to take advantage of 19nm process NAND flash
memory, which delivers major advances in power consumption and
performance. Continuing Toshiba's long history of innovation in NAND
flash memory - 2012 marks the 25th anniversary of Toshiba's invention
of NAND flash - the THNSNF series provides an ideal storage solution
for high-end and thin and light notebooks, all-in-one desktop
computers, embedded systems and external storage devices for consumer
and industrial PCs.

The THNSNF series employs Toggle MLC (multi-level cell) NAND flash,
which delivers significantly faster performance than competing SSDs
using synchronous or asynchronous NAND flash. Clocking in at around
twice the speed of Toshiba's HG3 series SSDs, the THNSNF series will
be available in four capacities (64, 128, 256, and 512 GB) and in
three form factors:

THNSNFxxxGBSS - 9.5 mm height, SATA 6Gb/s
THNSNFxxxGCSS -7.0 mm height, SATA 6Gb/s
THNSNFxxxGMCS - mSATATM, SATA 6Gb/s


Toshiba's unique integrated SSD design and manufacturing capability
ensures that key components of the SSD, from firmware to controllers,
as well as NAND flash, are designed by Toshiba, further underscoring
Toshiba's vertical integration and leadership strengths in the growing
SSD market. Toshiba's innovation with the THNSNF series includes data
protection through use of Quadruple Swing-By Code (QSBCTM), Toshiba's
robust and highly efficient error correction code technology.

The THNSNF series delivers efficient power utilization of less than
0.1 W, exceeding the Business Applications Performance Corporation
MobileMark$(D??(B 2007 benchmark for battery life, a critical standard for
next-generation ultrathin notebook PCs as well as current notebook
PCs. The THNSNF series employs Advanced Power Management (APM)
technology to control power consumption, and offers optional Automatic
Thermal Control to reduce power consumption in response to drive
temperatures.

"Our customers are increasingly looking to SSDs as a storage
solution across multiple products and markets because of the
performance and reliability they deliver," said Joel Hagberg,
vice president of marketing at Toshiba's Storage Products Business
Unit. "The THNSNF series provides not only great performance, but
also extremely low power consumption across a broad range of form
factors and capacities. These are critical features for our customers
as they design the next generation of PCs and embedded systems."

Mass production for the THNSNF series will begin in August 2012.