TOSHIBA ANNOUNCES WORLD'S HIGHEST CAPACITY HARD DRIVE: 750GB

Toshiba’s newly announced MK7559GSXP is the world’s highest capacity 2.5 inch hard drive with a standard 9.5 mm height. The Toshiba MK7559GSXP offers 750GB storage space. It is a two-platter drive with a SATA II interface and spins at 5400 rpm. Detailed specifications are given below:

Capacity: 750 GB
Interface: SATA II
Number of Platters: 2
Number of Data Heads: 4
Track-to-Track Seek: 2 ms
Average Seek Time: 12 ms
Rotational Speed: 5400 RPM
Average Latency: 5.5 ms
Buffer Size: 8 MB
Spin Up Power: 4.5 watts
Seek Power: 1.85 watts
Read / Write Power: 1.5 watts
Low Power Idle: 0.55 watts
Standby Power: 0.18 watts
Sleep Power: 0.15 watts
Dimensions: 69.85 mm x 100.00 mm x 9.5 mm
Weight: 102 g

Toshiba also announced its MKxx59GSM series hard drives with 750 GB and 1 TB capacities. These are also 2.5 inch drives but have a higher 12.5 mm height, which means that they cannot be used in all notebooks.

The Toshiba MK7559GSXP hard drives are expected to ship in the third quarter of this year. The MKxx59GSM drives are expected to ship during this quarter itself.