Tony Smith of The Register reports:
Toshiba has spun out six new laptop-friendly hard drives, including a 400GiB whopper that sports the world's highest data density to date, the company claimed.
The 400GiB MK4058GSX contains two platters spinning at 5400rpm and which cram 477MiB into every square millimetre. It connects to the host over a 3GiB/s SATA link. The 2.5in form-factor drive is 9.5mm high and has 8MiB of cache.
Toshiba touted the drive's energy efficiency as well as its capacity - it consumes up to 0.6W. And it's Toshiba's first halogen-free 2.5in hard drive.
If it's performance you're after, Toshiba also launched five 7200rpm drives with capacities ranging from 80GiB to 320GiB, and one or two platters. Again, they're 3GiB/s SATA drives, 2.5in in form-factor and 9.5mm thick. They have 16MiB of cache.
It's not the first 7200rpm 2.5in HDD to hit 320GiB - Fujitsu claimed that crown back in March. However, these boys consume up to 0.9W.
Toshiba didn't provide prices for the drives, but it did say the 7200rpm units will go into mass-production next month. The 400GiB HDD will be punched out in September.
