Toshiba Storage Device Division, a division of Toshiba America Information Systems, has launched a new family of 7,200RPM 2.5-inch HDDs, including a half-terabyte capacity.
The company claims, the four-model line-up to deliver more than a 13% performance improvement in disk operations compared to Toshiba’s previous 7,200RPM family, while decreasing environmental impact by eliminating or reducing the use of certain toxic and hazardous chemicals.
According to Toshiba, the new MKxx56GSY series offers capacities up to 500GB for commercial and consumer notebook PCs, gaming notebooks and all-in-one desktop PCs. These models are expected to enhance responsiveness of the overall system in areas such as application loading and general data processing. The family also offers extended battery life with lower power consumption in standby and sleep modes and faster start-up operation. The series also features areal density of 395Gb/in.
Maciek Brzeski, vice president of marketing at Toshiba Storage Device Division, said: This new family delivers faster overall system performance, which boosts user productivity – a key differentiator that PC manufacturers can provide to commercial and consumer notebook users. As a result, we expect that 7,200RPM HDDs will grow to more than 25% of 2.5-inch HDD shipments within two years.
Compliance with the SATA interface specification and other industry standards is of key importance to Toshiba storage products, as standards establish the foundation on which mainstream solutions can be built.
