Posted on 07/16/2008 8:38:51 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Mass production of the 400GB MK4058GSX will start from September, targeting notebook PC and consumer electronic applications. Mass production of the 7,200rpm drives will start in August. The line-up includes the 320GB MK3254GSY and models with 80, 120, 160 and 250GB capacities.
Toshiba will feature the new drives at DISKCON JAPAN 2008, organized by The International Disk Drive Equipment and Materials Association (IDEMA), which will be held in Tokyo, Japan, from July 22 to 23, and at IFA 2008, one of the world’s largest consumer electronics trade fairs, which will be held in Berlin, Germany, from August 29 to September 3.
The MK4058GSX uses an improved read-write head and enhanced magnetic layer to boost areal density to 477Mbit/mm2 and achieve a capacity of 400GB on only two platters, the highest data density of any of Toshiba’s 2.5-inch HDD. A further plus is that acoustic noise during data seek has been reduced by 2 decibels (dB), compared to the company’s current top-of-the-line 320GB MK3252GSX, making operation almost inaudible. As a result, the new 400GB drive is ideally suited for noise-free playback of movies and music on notebook PCs and digital products. These advances are complemented by an improved energy consumption efficiency*2 that makes the MK4058GSX approximately 20% more efficient than Toshiba’s current top-of-the-line MK3252GSX.
The five other drives that Toshiba has added to its line-up take full advantage of a 7,200rpm rotation speed to boost performance. Compared to the current 200GB model (MK2049GSY), the 320GB MK3254GSY improves maximum internal data transfers rate by approximately 14% to support high-speed processing of high volume data, meeting demand for notebook and desktop PCs offering faster performance. The 320GB drives is also 37% more efficient than the MK2049GSY in terms of energy consumption efficiency*2. All of the drives, available in a line-up of 80, 120, 160, 250 and 320GB capacities, support an optional Free Fall Sensor function, that detects a falling HDD and parks the head before impact.
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It would be great if these companies would try to bring down the pricing of solid state drives. They would yield even quieter operation, achieve longer battery life and be able to boast of even faster reads and a lower failure rate.
this article lost me at the word “Toshiba”.
What's wrong with Toshiba? I just bought one.
Yeah, too bad nobody's working on that. [/sarc]
Toshiba sold out the United States when they sold milling machines to the Soviet Union during the 1980’s.
With those milling machines they were able to quiet their submarines down to a point that made them very hard to detect by the U.S. Navy and Nato.
Thanks for the info. They're now on my extensive boycott list (which seems to grow by the day).
no, no. i meant that “Toshiba” was the last word of the article that i actually understood. i am still not sure if they are talking about tv’s or dvd’s or computer drives.
They got slaps on the wrist for selling technology to the Soviets under false pretenses. Look into the Toshiba-Kongsberg scandal. It wasn't a one-shot deal, but was ongoing sabotage for many years.
I really wish I hadn't bought the Toshiba now, especially because one of its features is how quiet the drive is supposed to be.
Hehe. I misunderstood you. It’s about hard drives, but there is an awful lot of impenetrable techno-mumbojumbo to wade through...
I really wish I hadn't bought the Toshiba now, especially because one of its features is how quiet the drive is supposed to be.
Practically all Apple iPods and their computer line-ups that use hard-drives contain those made by Toshiba.
Besides, Toshiba has plenty of patents for technologies used in most electronics. It’ll be really hard to boycott them, all the time.
Some advocated the revocation of patent protection for Toshiba and its subsidiaries (and Kongsberg), along with calling on Japan and Norway to execute those responsible for endangering the free world. They were tempting suggestions.
Regardless, even if one cannot boycott them all the time, some loss of sales in directly branded consumer products has some real effect. Unfortunately, few people remember the incident, so there’s little incentive to avoid similarly evil behaviour in the future—with Toshiba, Kongsberg, or others.
LOL!
The other explanation made sense to me, so that's what I assumed you had meant!
The fines were pathetic, but there was more to it. Some top executives had to resign in shame (a very bad thing in Japan) and a couple people were prosecuted. That subsidiary was also prohibited from trading with any East-bloc country for a year which was apparently a good chunk of their business. Toshiba also lost a lot of money in US military contracts as a result.
Lastly, Toshiba spent a boatload of money running full-page ads in the US profusely apologizing to the American people.
After 20 years I think it's time to let this one go. I doubt any of the culprits are still at Toshiba.
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