Toshiba have announced their latest notebook hard-drives, and as you’d expect the company is concentrating on packing more storage into the same amount of space. Two new sizes have made their debut: a standard 9.5mm high 2.5-inch drive, the MK7559GSXP, with 750GB capacity, and the MKxx59GSM range of 12.5mm high 2.5-inch drives, with 750GB or 1.5TB of storage.
Obviously while the MK7559GSXP will fit into most laptops, you’ll need a suitably deep bay for its thicker counterparts. That’s because Toshiba have squeezed in an extra platter, though all three of the HDDs spin at 5,400rpm.
They also all have 8MB of cache, SATA 3Gb/s interfaces and 12ms average seek times, and Toshiba reckon that – thanks to their “silent seek” technology – they’re as quiet when active as they are when idling. No word on pricing, but the MKxx59GSM drives should show up in Q2 2010, while the MK7559GSXP is expected to follow on in Q3 2010.