Toshiba Corporation announced the launch of nine new 2.5-inch hard disk drives (HDD) that employ the company's latest advances in HDD technology. The new drives include the MK3252GSX, which achieves an industry-leading capacity of 320GB [The industry's largest commercially available capacity in a 2.5-inch hard disk drive, as of August 21, 2007 (source: Toshiba)], and the MK2049GSY, which improves performance with a 7,200rpm rotational speed. Toshiba will mass produce the drives in turn, starting from November.

The MK3252GSX uses an improved read-write head and enhanced magnetic layer to boost areal density and achieves a storage capacity of 320GB. The high-speed MK2049GSY offers a rotation speed of 7,200rpm and also integrates a large capacity 16MB buffer memory, supporting high-speed processing of large volumes of data: the drive improves the maximum internal data transfer rate by approximately 46% and increases the average random access time by some 8%.

Both models support an optional Free Fall Sensor function, which detects falling HDD and parks the head before it crashes.

More details and specifications can be found in the original Press Release.