Five new hard disk SATA 3.5 and 2.5 inches by Toshiba

Toshiba has announced five new series of hard drives, including three with form factor 3.5-inch and two 2.5-inch. One of the latter is also of a hybrid type, with a quantity of NAND flash memory to speed up the normal operations.

Toshiba Europe Storage Peripherals Division announced five new lines of SATA hard drives, to meet the different market needs. The range consists of three 3.5-inch hard drive: E300 Low-Energy Desktop for general purpose, P300 high-performance Desktop even higher specification and model X300 High-Performance Desktop for users who are using applications that require high power such as graphic designers and gamers.

They are still missing two series and are made in the form factor 2.5-inch L200 Mobile and H200 High-Performance, where the latter includes consists SSHD (Solid-State Hybrid Drive) far faster thanks to a portion NAND Flash 8 GB which joins the normal capacity given by the rotating disks.

The X300 series is the one that offers the higher price category: 6 TB, 4 TB or 5 TB, all with a 128 MB buffer, 7200 RPM rotational disk SATA 6 Gbps interface and of course, like all other disks presented. The units of the series P300, available in denominations of 3 TB, 2 TB, 1 TB and 500 GB, are always of the revolutions of 7200 but with a quantity of cache halved compared to X300, or 64 MB. With Toshiba E300 puts targeted energy conscious users: the rotation speed is lower (for 3 TB 5940 rpm, 5700 rpm for 2 TB), sacrificing anything in terms of performance but gaining in terms of energy.

The SSHD H200 series, available in denominations of 500 GB and 1 TB, combines much of the performance of an SSD to the capacity of a HDD. The amount of the form of 8 GB NAND Flash is used by the operating system to store data used to the advantage of the overall performance, without giving the total capacity of a normal HDD. The L200 model is a H200 without NAND Flash.