Toshiba debuts ‘world’s first’ 7200rpm 5TB HDD for consumers

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Toshiba Corp. has introduced the world’s first hard disk drive with 5TB capacity and 7200rpm spindle speed designed for consumer desktop computers.

This year all leading manufacturers of hard disk drives unveiled HDDs of extreme 5TB or 6TB capacities for enterprise, nearline storage or NAS applications. Such hard drives feature ~5400rpm or 7200rpm spindle speeds and rather extreme prices because of their positioning. Unfortunately, neither Seagate, nor Western Digital, nor HGST have so far introduced desktop-class 5TB HDDs with decent performance designed for consumers.

Toshiba PH3*00U-1I72 family of hard disk drives includes 4TB and 5TB models based on four or five 1TB platters that feature perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) technology. The new drives sport 7200rpm spindle speed, Serial ATA-6Gb/s interface and 128MB of cache to maximize performance. Toshiba declares average seek time of 10.5ms for its new HDDs.

Toshiba’s new 4TB and 5TB hard drives with 7200rpm spindle speed were developed for consumer desktop computers in mind and therefore are not designed to be expensive. At present Toshiba sells its 4TB HDD for $239 and its 5TB HDD for $319 online in the U.S.

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^ gasto napud ta ani... hehehe... the more capacity, the merrier labi na, dagko kaayo'g file size ang raw digital images or sige DL ug movies na wla'y delete2x... ug uban pang important files na need ug large capacity HDD...