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Toshiba America Electronic Components Inc. (TAEC) announced the expansion of its line-up of NAND-flash-based solid state drives (SSD) into the enterprise storage market with the company's first Single Level Cell (SLC) NAND-based SSDs. The drives feature the serial attached SCSI (SAS) interface, which is expected to gain momentum in the high-performance enterprise storage market in 2009. Toshiba's new enterprise SSDs address market demands for the performance advantages and power savings of solid state storage for applications in servers, direct-attached storage, and network-attached storage.
