SUPERMICRO® Release Toshiba HDD MG03ACA400 Supermicro

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SUPERMICRO® QUALIFIES TOSHIBA HIGH PERFORMANCE, ENERGY

EFFICIENT DRIVES FOR ENTERPRISE SERVER AND STORAGE SOLUTIONS

Toshiba enterprise drives provide customers with maximized performance with power

efficiency

IRVINE, Calif., — June 25, 2013 — Toshiba’s Storage Products Business Unit of Toshiba

America Electronic Components, Inc., a committed technology leader, today announced that

Supermicro Computer, Inc., a global leader in delivering advanced computing solutions to the

enterprise, has qualified two Toshiba enterprise hard disk drive (HDDs) series. As part of

Supermicro’s storage offerings, customers will now be able to deploy Toshiba drives in either

enterprise server or storage systems.

The qualified drives include:

• MG03ACA/MG03ACAY/MG03SCA/MG03SCP enterprise-class: 3.5-inch hard disk

drives (HDD) series includes both SATA models – the MG03ACA400 and the

MG3ACA400Y – and SAS models – MG03SCA400 and the MG03SCP400 – and all

deliver 4TB1 of storage, the company’s largest capacity to date. The MG Series is

perfectly suited for RAID storage and arrays, tiered virtual infrastructures for public and

private cloud deployments, archives, and disk-based backup and data protection

solutions. In addition, the MG Series includes power management features designed to

reduce power consumption during off-peak activity periods, helping to reduce operating

costs and increase efficiency.

• AL13SE enterprise-class: 2.5-inch 6Gb/s SAS interface HDD series offer capacities

ranging from 900GB1 to 300GB. Designed for even the most demanding mission-critical

applications, the AL13SE series features an operating reliability rating of 2,000,000

power-on hours2, a 25 percent increase over prior-generation drives.

“As corporations increasingly demand faster computing solutions and access to data,

enterprises need to maximize both storage performance and efficiency while keeping cost-

effectiveness in mind,” said Joel Hagberg, vice president of marketing at Toshiba’s Storage

Products Business Unit. “Toshiba and Supermicro have partnered to deliver advanced storage

solutions to enterprise customers in an effort to help satisfy the increasing demand for high-

performing and efficient enterprise storage.”

“Enterprise and data center customers need scalable storage solutions that offer not only

increased performance and capacity but also the highest levels of energy efficiency,” said Wally

Liaw, Vice President, Sales International at Supermicro. “Supermicro meets this challenge with

the widest range of solutions including energy efficient 1U, 2U, 3U storage servers to our 4U

FatTwin featuring 8x 3.5” hot-swap HDDs per U and new high capacity 4U Double-Sided

Storage server featuring 72x external 3.5” hot-swap HDDs. Combined with Toshiba’s latest

enterprise-class, high performance, energy efficient HDDs, Supermicro offers the industry

maximum flexibility to deploy solutions matching their exact application requirements.”

For more information on Toshiba’s line of industry-leading enterprise-class small form factor

hard drives, visit www.toshibastorage.com. To connect with Toshiba Storage, visit the corporate

blog at http://storage.toshiba.com/corporateblog/ and follow @ToshibaStorage on Twitter.

1. Definition of capacity: Toshiba defines a megabyte (MB) as 1,000,000 bytes, a gigabyte (GB) as 1,000,000,000 bytes and a terabyte

(TB) as 1,000,000,000,000 bytes. A computer operating system, however, reports storage capacity using powers of 2 for the

definition of 1GB = 230 = 1,073,741,824 bytes and therefore shows less storage capacity. Available storage capacity (including

examples of various media files) will vary based on file size, formatting, settings, software and operating system, such as Microsoft

Operating System and/or pre-installed software applications, or media content. Actual formatted capacity may vary.

2. Mean time to failure (MTTF) is not a guarantee or estimate of product life; it is a statistical value related to mean failure rates for a

large number of products, which may not accurately reflect actual operation.

Supermicro is a registered trademark of Super Micro Computer, Inc.

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About Toshiba Storage Products

Toshiba Corporation and its affiliates offer one-of-a-kind global storage solutions, offering hard disk drives (HDDs),

solid state drives (SSDs). Solid state hybrid drives (SSHDs) and NAND flash memories — technologies that drive a

wide range of consumer electronics, computer and automotive applications, as well as enterprise solutions for the

global marketplace. Toshiba is a leader in the development, design and manufacture of mobile, consumer and

enterprise hard disk drives and solid state drives. In North America, the Storage Products Business Unit of Toshiba

America Electronic Components, Inc., markets high-quality storage peripherals to original equipment manufacturers,

original design manufacturers, value-added resellers, value-added dealers, systems integrators and distributors

worldwide. Inherent in the Toshiba storage family are the high-quality engineering and manufacturing capabilities

that have established Toshiba products as innovation leaders worldwide. For more information, visit

www.toshibastorage.com.

About Toshiba Corp. and Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. (TAEC)

Through proven commitment, lasting relationships and advanced, reliable electronic components, Toshiba enables

its customers to create market-leading designs. Toshiba is the heartbeat within product breakthroughs from OEMs,

ODMs, CMs, VARs, distributors and fabless chip companies worldwide. A committed electronic components leader,

Toshiba designs and manufactures high-quality flash memory-based storage solutions, solid state drives (SSDs),

hard disk drives (HDDs), discrete devices, advanced materials, medical tubes, custom SoCs/ASICs, imaging

products, microcontrollers and wireless components that make possible today’s leading smartphones, tablets, MP3

players, cameras, medical devices, automotive electronics, enterprise solutions and more.

Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. is an independent operating company owned by Toshiba America,

Inc., a subsidiary of Toshiba Corporation, Japan’s largest semiconductor manufacturer and the world’s fifth largest

semiconductor manufacturer (Gartner, 2012 Worldwide Semiconductor Revenue, April, 2013). Toshiba Corporation

was founded in 1875 and today has over 554 subsidiaries and affiliates, with 210,000 employees worldwide. Visit

Toshiba's web site at www.toshiba.co.jp/index.htm.

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are trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks of their respective owners. Information in this press release,

including product pricing and specifications, content of services and contact information, is current and believed to

be accurate on the date of the announcement, but is subject to change without prior notice. Technical and application

information contained here is subject to the most recent applicable Toshiba product specifications.