Toshiba introduced maloshumny and enhanced reliability poluterabaytny 2.5 "hard disk

The Japanese company Toshiba today announced a new SATA (3 Gbps) hard disk volume in half terabyte made in the form factor of 2.5-inches and spindle speed 5400 rpm. This model will head the new series maloshumnyh hard drive company, whose internal volume will be between 120 to 500 GB. The main purpose of the new products - focus on integration into notebooks, subnoutbuki, passbook PCs, game consoles, external hard drives of other consumer electronics.



According to the manufacturer, its new family of hard drives has raised the bar for acoustic characteristics of normal production high capacity HD. In addition to reducing the noise by using special technology in the actuator and mechanical design in general, on the hard drives have achieved lower energy consumption at 0.5 W with the operations of data and read / write, compared with the masthead 400 GB models of up to 1 , 7 and 1.4 W, respectively.

In addition, the above optimization of mechanical and servo increases the reliability and longevity of hard drives and makes them "the most-most in the world to date on the impact of external factors such as vibrations and shocks.

Toshiba OEM sales of new products scheduled for next month and the general public can see them at the January 2009 CES show.