Toshiba 750MB 2.5-In Laptop Hard Disk Drive Now Official

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If your main computing machine is a laptop then I’m sure that one of your problems, besides battery life, is your hard / solid state drive. Neither one can offer us all the storage space we require for our music, movies, games and work related material. So that’s why a 2.5-inch laptop hard disk drive capable of storing no less than 750GB would definitely come in handy.

Toshiba has just announced such a laptop component and they’ve given it an extremely weird and very difficult to remember name: the MK7559GSXP. In Toshiba’s words, the new drive is designed for: “notebook PCs, all-in-one desktops, slim line workstations, external add-on storage devices and other capacity-hungry applications.”

That means you won’t have to carry with you a spare hard drive in order to be able to take all your precious data on the road, and I’m particularly thinking about notebooks here. Instead you can leave the external drives at home guarding your backups as you’d have anything you need on a 750GB HDD. Think that’s not enough? Well Toshiba is working on a 1TB version which will be available at some point in the future.

Here are some technical specifications for the MK7559GHXP:

• 750GB of Storage Capacity
• 9.5-millimeter High Profile
• Serial ATA, Revision 2.6
• 8MB Cache Buffer
• Rotation Speed: 5,400 RPM
• Transfer Rate: 3GB/sec
• Advanced Sector Format technology
• 4K byte-per-sector configuration
• Error-correcting code functionality

Toshiba has also made sure that the new drive is as eco-friendly as possible. You can expect it to be up to 14% more energy efficient than any other model from Toshiba. Furthermore the MK7559GSXP uses “components that reduce reliance on harmful chemicals, materials and compounds.”

We don’t have pricing details and ship dates yet but it looks like sample of the new HDD will hit manufacturers by the end of April and mass production is scheduled for the following period of time. Sooner than expected our future laptops will have these new 750GB and 1TB HDDs running under the hood and I personally can’t wait for that to happen.