Toshiba announced its new MQ01ABD Series 2.5-inch hard drive with up to 1TB capacity in an industry-standard 9.5mm high form factor. The new drive uses the new 500GB/platter technology with an industry-leading areal density of 744Gb/inch. The 2.5-inch hard drive has a 5400RPM rotational speed, 12ms average seek time and 8MB buffer memory.
The MQ01ABD Series is available in 250GB, 320GB, 500GB, 750GB and 1TB capacities. It uses SATA 3Gb/s interface. Ideal for high-end notebook and desktop PCs, mobile workstations, gaming consoles, DVR set-top boxes, external storage solutions, the MQ01ABD consumes only 0.55watts during idle mode and offers improved acoustic performance, emitting a maximum of 19dB at idle and 24dB during seek operations.
Mass production of the MQ01ABD series will start in the middle of August.
Product Specifications
| Model Number | MQ01ABD100, 075, 050, 032, 025 |
| Maximum Capacity (Formatted) 1 | 1000//750 // 500/320/250 |
| Number of platters | 2 // 1 |
| Areal density (max) | 744.1Gb/in2 |
| Media transfer rate (max) | 1288.6Mbps |
| Average seek time | 12 ms |
| Rotational speed | 5400 RPM |
| Buffer memory | 8 MB |
| Interface | Serial ATA Revision 2.6 (ATA-8) |
| Interface transfer rate | 3Gb/s |
| External dimensions (WxDxH; mm) | 69.85 mm x 100.0 mm x 9.5 mm |
| Weight (g) | 112//102 g (typ) |
| Energy consumption efficiency |
0.00055/0.00074/0.0011/0.0018/0.0022 |
| Shock resistance: | |
| Operating | 3.920m/s2 (400G) 2ms |
| Non-operating | 8.820m/s2 (900G) 1ms |
| Acoustics: | |
| Idle | 23// 17 dB |
| Seek | 24// 19dB |
