Toshiba Introduces a 1-Terabyte 2.5-Inch Hard Disk Drive for Laptops

Toshiba enters the nascent 1-terabyte laptop hard drive market with the company's first 2.5-inch 1TB HDD, the MQ01ABD. The drive has an manufacture-standard 9.5mm height and uses two 500GB platters.

Laptop computer storage capacity has really come a tenacious way. Previously, hard drives with huge capacities were too big to check into most laptop storage bays. Samsung and Western Digital recently introduced 1TB hard drives for laptops that are 9.5mm tall–which is more laptop computer-friendly. Straight off Toshiba offers its own model.

Toshiba says in its announcement that with the MQ01ABD, the company has hyperbolic the quantity of data stored per square inch by over 37 per centum compared with prior 2.5-inch models.

The MQ01ABD has a 5400rpm move speed, 12ms seek time, and a SATA2 port. Information technology's also on tap in smaller 250, 320, 500, and 750GB capacity versions-but imagine all the games and media you can now stuff on your laptop with one tetrabyte of space.

No word connected pricing yet, but mass product of the disk drive will originate in the heart of this month.

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