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Toshiba adds quiet 500GB laptop drive to lineup
updated 10:45 pm EST, Tue November 18, 2008
Toshiba adds 500GB drive
Toshiba on Tuesday unveiled a new 500GB 2.5-inch SATA drive featuring whisper quiet operation. The flagship MK5055GSX offers an 8MB buffer, and a read/write power consumption of 1.4W. Toshiba claims that the improved servo mechanism not only decreases the operational noise, but also increases durability of the hardware. Pricing was not readily available, but Toshiba expects to ship the drive in January, and will exhibit the drive at CES 2009 in January.
The MK5055GSX offers a free-fall sensor option to protect against falls, and the entire drive is designed to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, as well as complying to other environmental standards.
Less CO2
11/19, 12:34am reply
Oh yeah, just what I was looking for. I knew if I clicked this article I'd find some environmental twist. So in addition to not drinking carbonated drinks and belching so much I'm also going to hold my breath for one week. Awesome, this will save the planet. The rest of you non-elites should not buy this and should take advantage of the new law in Oregon for assisted self-termination so as not to use more of mother earth's precious resources so I can at least live a little bit.
JackWebb
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Plant A Tree
11/19, 12:42am reply
Buy this drive and plant a tree (co2 offset).
On another note, considering the drive is 5400RPM’s how’s the speed specs? At 500GB on a 2.5” drive I would guess it’s quite impressive. The Toshiba site is sparse on this type of info.
CVB
cvbcvb
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new servos suck CO2
11/19, 03:47am reply
This drive emits less CO2? I don't see how that's possible; I was under the impression that my existing drive emits zero CO2. To emit less, this drive would actually have to suck the CO2 into itself and never let it out.Perhaps this is a function of the improved servo mechanism. You gotta believe the old servos could never do that!This story would be a lot more interesting if it was a drive you could actually get in a MacBook computer. I'm just sayin'.
ggirton
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Woah dude
11/19, 12:37pm reply
You're thinking way too deep for us. The drive doesn't suck man. Buy the drive and plant plants. Where'd I put my bowl.
JackWebb
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