Toshiba to expand family of 2.5-inch internal SATA Hard Drives

New 7mm 500 GB HDD for mobile devices will improve storage capacity and performance of notebooks and gaming consoles 

April 13^th – Toshiba will shortly be expanding its range of 2.5-inch HDDs with a slimline drive that allows users to quickly and easily add 500 GB^[1] of high-performance internal storage to notebooks and gaming consoles.

Offering reliable performance for everyday users and gamers, the 7mm profile L200 – Slim Mobile Hard Drive is the latest addition to the Toshiba L200 family of hard drives for mobile computing platforms. The drive features a Serial ATA 3.0 / ATA8 and combines a proprietary cache algorithm with buffer management that ensures rapid access to frequently-used applications and data.

Toshiba’s new slimline drive offers Advanced Format (AF) storage and uses Perpendicular Magnetic Recording (PMR) and Tunnel Magneto-Resistive (TMR) recording technology to deliver high-density, high-speed and stability. Data security is supported through a built-in shock sensor that enhances resistance to shock and vibration and ramp loading technology that protects data while the drive is on the move.

Designed for optimum performance, the L200 – 7mm offers support for native command queuing (NCQ), incorporates an 8MB buffer, and operates with a rotational speed of 5400rpm.

The new drive will be available from May 2016. A two-year warranty is provided as standard.

[1] One Gigabyte (1GB) means 10 = 1,000,000,000 bytes and One Terabyte (1TB) means 10 = 1,000,000,000,000 bytes using powers of 10. A computer operating system, however, reports storage capacity 30 40 using powers of 2 for the definition of 1GB= 2 = 1,073,741,824 bytes and 1TB = 2 = 1,099,511,627,776 bytes, and therefore shows less