Toshiba says thanks to hardware and software improvements its new hard drives are about 13 percent faster than those in its previous 7,200 rpm product line. The MKxx56GSY series offers data storage capacities of up to 500GB and lower power consumption.
– Toshiba’s
Storage Device Division Sept. 16 launched a new group of high-performance
7,200 rpm, 2.5-inch spinning disk drives for laptops, netbooks and desktops,
including one with half-terabyte capacity.

And they’re just in time, too, because it looks like the company should have no
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