Toshiba released its AL13SE series enterprise drives in the 2.5-inch format with capacities of up to 900 GB optionally, the drives can be acquired as Slim FIT models, they are integrated into a 3.5-inch frame. Thanks to the high rotational speed of 10,500 rpm, and the SAS Interface 6Gb / s is faster data access ensured, Toshiba specifically targeting the small form factor hard disk drives with capacities of 300, 450, 600 and 900 GBytes of business customers, in idle mode consumes only 4.7 watts, the HDDs.


According to Toshiba could be improved with new techniques, the track density by 21% and the areal density by 44%, the sector size is 512 bytes in addition, Toshiba has made other adjustments to protect the read-write head. This should have the hard drives of AL13SE series increased by 25% lifetime than previous generations, the MTBF is 2 million hours unfortunately, Toshiba still conceals release dates and prices of AL13SE series.