Toshiba Introduces 1TB 2.5-inch Notebook Hard Drives
Toshiba recently announced two additions to its 5,400 RPM line of 2.5-inch HDDs featuring industry-leading storage capacities. In the standard 9.5 millimeter-high, two-platter design, the MK7559GSXP HDD incorporates both the industry’s highest areal density and capacity at 750GB. Toshiba also introduced a new three-platter 12.5-millimeter-high platform with the MKxx59GSM series, which offers 750GB and 1TB of storage. Toshiba’s MKxx59GSM series and MK7559GSXP drives are scheduled to ship to PC manufacturers and distributors in the second and third quarters of 2010, respectively. Design samples of the MKxx59GSM are currently available to system manufacturers, followed by samples of the MK7559GSXP in April.
“Toshiba continues to lead in integrating state-of-the-art technologies such as 4K byte-per-sector formatting to drive capacity increases and help system manufacturers succeed in their markets,” said Maciek Brzeski, vice president of marketing at Toshiba Storage Device Division. “Since the introduction of our first 4K byte-per-sector offering on a 1.8-inch HDD in 2007, we have leveraged our miniaturization expertise to perfect this technology, balancing storage advancements and reliability with solid performance. As a result, Toshiba can deliver performance benefits with high capacity drives using the 4K byte-per-sector implementation by working with product manufacturers to maintain compatibility with the host device’s operating system and software packages.”
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