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Toshiba creates super dense hard disk drives
JAPANESE COMPUTER MAKER Toshiba has released two 5,400RPM hard disk drives in a line of 2.5-inch HDDs that it says have the highest areal density and largest capacities yet at 750GB and 1TB.
Sample shipments of the MK7559GSXP HDD will start from April. They will have an areal density of 839.1Mb/mm2, making them ideal for mobile applications.
According to Toshiba, "this HDD is well-suited for devices that value high capacity in a smaller footprint with improved acoustic performance and lower power operation compared to larger form factor HDDs. Those applications include all-in-one desktops, televisions and set top boxes."
The MK7559GSXP drive's energy consumption is about 14 per cent less than the previous generation.
Toshiba also introduced a three-platter 12.5-millimeter-high disk drive, the MK1059GSM with 1TB of storage.
While there is no word on prices, Toshiba tells us that the hard disk drives are made of environmentally friendly products that agreed to be used in the devices. µ
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This has become a very heated topic between Toshiba and Western Digital trying to beat each other to get the first 750GB and 1TB hard drive into a notebook computer. Unfortunately the speed of these drives is lack luster and the big number is only for the media and not for the consumer.
http://www.computerpartsreview.com/hard-drive-reviews.html
Precisly what I've been wanting/saying/wishing for the past few years. Why oh why wont they make us a nice big storage device to fill that gap between very very slow, moderatly cheep backup devices such as tape drives and DVD/Blu ray disks and the fast, reasonably priced hard drives.
I want a 8TB drive that costs like £200-£400 and has something like 10-50MB/s read/write.
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They should go back in time a bit.
Small(ish) but really fast 3.5" drives (say 250 - 500GB) and for storage, get the old Quantum Bigfoot princible out. Slow(ish) 5.25" HDDs with loooots of space for storage, which doesn't need to be superfast..
i'd love to see something like this happen ..
i mean.. if they can fit 2TB on a 3.5" HDD.. imagine what 5.25" HDDs could hold .. 4 - 6TB ?! 8TB?!?
Where is the 3.5" versions..
Some 1.9TB or 2.5TB, 3.2TB etc or what the new disk sizes will be would be nice.