With the MQ01ABD100 Toshiba presents its latest 2.5 inch drive. The 1.0 Terabyte drive is based on two 500 Gigabyte platters and four read/write heads. This drive should be suitable not only for notebooks but also for storage servers that make use of low power hard drives.

Specifications

Model	Toshiba MQ01ABD100 1'000 GB SATA II 2.5
Capacity	1.0 TByte, 8 MByte Cache
Accesstime (seek)	12 ms
Life expectance	600'000 hours (MTBF)
Powerconsumption	Seek 1.85 Watt Access: 1.50 Watt Idle: 0.55 Watt
Acoustics	Seek: 19 dB Idle: 17 dB
Warranty	3 years

On the following pages we will show what Toshiba's MQ01ABD100 with 1'000 GByte disk space is capable of.

Page 1 - Introduction	Page 5 - Random read/write KByte/s
Page 2 - Preview	Page 6 - Sequential write/read ops
Page 3 - How do we test?	Page 7 - Random write/read ops
Page 4 - Sequential write/read KByte/s	Page 8 - Conclusion

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