Toshiba has announced a 2.5″hdd announced with four platters of 750GB each, for a total storage capacity of 3TB. In addition, the company has a new sshd from which the nand controller is part of the hdd extensively.
The capacity of 3TB of the MQ03ABB is, according to Toshiba, the top of a 2.5″drive so far. The manufacturer has the pmr-technology used to datadichtheid of 750GB per platter. The thickness of the drives is 15mm, the rotational speed is 5400rpm and is a sata-600 interface. The drive has a buffer of 16MB. The energy consumption is during the operation 1.7 W standby 0.7 W, The first sample deliveries will be in may instead, then the massalevering start. Prices for the MQ03ABB are not yet known.
In addition, Toshiba with the MQ02ABD100H with thickness of 9.5 mm and the MQ02ABF050H of 7mm thickness. These are 2,5″-sshd’s with capacities of, respectively, 1TB and 500GB. The drives have 8GB of nand memory and the 19nm chips of the second generation of Toshiba. Compared to the previous sshd-generation of Toshiba’s nand controller and the hdd controller no longer separate, but when it comes to an integrated controller-soc. Both drives rotate at 5400rpm and the amount of cache is 64MB.
