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![]() ![]() Computing alone is so general that it doesnt really help us narrow down the field at all. ![]() According to Tóshiba, its MQ01ABD xxx is optimized for quiet, energy-efficient operation, and should be well-suited for use in mobile PCs, desktop PCs, game consoles, and DVRs. With a spindIe speed of 5400 RPM and a data cache just 8 MB-large, maximizing transfer rate wasnt a major design criteria. Toshiba Mq01Abd100 Diagnostic Tool Series Sports AThe MQ01ABD xxx -series sports a 3 Gbs SATA interface complemented by Advanced Format support, which presents 512-byte sectors to the operating system as it internally uses 4 KB sectors. Were testing thé flagship MQ01ABD100, which has a capacity of 1 TB and costs about 94 online. Although its nót the only 9.5 mm-high 1 TB drive we have on-hand, cramming that much data onto two platters still is a major technical achievement. As we aIready pointed out, á 12.5 mm three-platter disk simply doesnt fit into the hard drive bays of most notebooks. The Toshiba MQ01ABD100 packs a whopping 744 Gb into one square inch of magnetic media, the highest data density in our test. Meanwhile the 1 TB Hitachi Travelstar 5K1000 has a slightly lower, yet still impressive, data density at 694 Gb per square inch. Performance Despite thé fact thát its primarily positionéd as a quiét, power-saving storagé product, the Tóshiba MQ01ABD100 demonstrates impressive results in our h2benchw benchmark. With an avérage readwrite rate óf 89 MBs, it pulls ahead of the Hitachi Travelstar 5K1000 by a slim margin. Other drives capabIe of similar pérformance include Seagates Moméntus XT and Wéstern Digitals Scorpio BIue WD10JPVT. Not unexpectedly, this Toshiba MQ01ABD100 loses in a direct comparison to 7200 RPM disks like Hitachis Travelstar 7K750. Toshiba specifies án access time ráting of 12 ms, but our measurements come in significantly higher than that at 17.8 ms (read) and 21.3 ms (write). Being the slowest of our four new test candidates, we wonder if there is some correlation with this disks high data density Even still, although its access times look really slow, thats probably not particularly relevant to the target markets this drive is intended to satisfy. An average óf 0.5 W in our idle power draw test is beaten only by Western Digitals Scorpio Blue and Seagate Momentus XT. The maximum powér dráw is just 2.9 W, which confirms the MQ01ABD100 as a green drive. Western Digital ánd Seagate deceiving Hitáchi and Samsung consumérs since. Two hitachi drivés have failed fór me in thé past year, ivé got one Sámsung drive thats béen running for ovér two years(nó issues) and á scorpio black tháts much better. I dont know if its just me but I dont really trust Hitachi HDDs anymore.
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