Toshiba Notebook Drives Now Bench Press 320GB and More
If you’re a big-time notebook user, you have to be big-time happy with news of Toshiba’s new MK-52GSX 2.5-inch SATA notebook drive, which maxes out at a bigtime and world-best 320GB. The two-plattered giant runs at 5,400rpm and sports an 8MB buffer and 12ms average seek time. Expect production to start yet this year.
Elsewhere, Toshiba also recently took memory card storage to unprecedented heights with a new 32GB SDHC card. Although that capacity won’t be ready until January, expect new 16GB SDHC and 8GB mini-SDHC cards in October. Finally, Japanese manufacturer DTS has released details of its mCell cyperDrive, which combines an 80/120/160GB 2.5-inch SATA drive with a real-time OS, CPU, and 1GB DDR RAM, all residing in a 3.5-inch case. Transfer rates reportedly hit 110MBps.
