Toshiba Europe today announced new high capacity slim HDDs. The drives named the MQ02ABF series, have a height of 7mm and come in a 2.5" form factor, have a weight of 99 grams and Toshiba targets them for Ultrabook usage. While they are pretty small they aren't limited in capacity. The MQ02ABF series HDDs are available in capacities of 750 GB and 1 TB.
The drives connect to the computer using the SATA-3 interface. The HDDs contain two platters, have a buffer of 16 MB and rotate at 5400 RPM. Those RPMs are achieved using a thinner mechanical structure containing a new 5400 RPM spindle motor which is housed within a newly designed rigid chassis that, according to Toshiba, keeps noise levels to 22 dB during idle and 23 dB during seek operations.
Toshiba claims an average drive ready time in 3.0 seconds (typical) and average seek times of 12ms.
Sample shipment of the new family of high-capacity, slim HDDs is scheduled to start in November, Toshiba has not disclosed any other availablity and pricing details.
