New generation of hard drives 10,000 tours in Toshiba

Businesses looking for hard drives quick plates spinning at 10 K rpm can move towards the new Toshiba pro range.

It is the turn of Toshiba occupying the scene with its new generation of disk drives trays specially studied for the business world. With a speed of rotation to 10,500 t/m, the new AL13SE is 2.5 inches with a SAS 2.0 6 Gb/s interface to the format and is offered in several sizes: 300 GB, 450 GB and 600 GB same 900 GB.

With a 64 MB cache, it offers 3.7 ms read and 4.1 ms write response times, we are far from the DSS, but the comparison can be made with this type of business-oriented material with 24/7 operation times since he displays a 2 million hours MTBF and increases the speed of data transfer of 32% over the previous generation. Toshiba ensures that its new drives offer retro-compatibility with the sizes of 512-byte sectors.

In addition, this new series hard drives for companies custody system of decrease in the speed of rotation of the platters to reduce energy consumption and reduce heating. For companies have 3.5-inch disks to the format-based storage systems, Toshiba offers its AL13SE range with an additional adapter to facilitate their installation.

These discs are accompanied by five years manufacturer warranty. Toshiba has not yet release public prices of its new range. Need to make contact with his usual reseller to obtain.

More information on the Toshiba 21: 9 Ultrabook

The new Toshiba Ultrabook will be released within a few days with an atypical screen...

Following the news published yesterday and with this Toshiba Ultrabook, we now have new information to us to eat on this laptop. Therefore summarize the characteristics of this laptop who sailed a wide screen format "cinema".

This Satellite U845W (U840W in Europe) will be sold July 15 in the United States. The "W" of the reference relates to "Wide" or wide French, and therefore screen 21: 9 a definition of 1792 x 768 pixels with a backlight led to a 14.4-inch diagonal TN slab.

For the rest of the specifications, it has a backlit keyboard, three ports USB 3.0 including a "Sleep and Charge" technology with and allows even the reading of music by the headset when the screen is closed. At the order, will be a choice between a hard drive to 500 GB platters with 32 GB flash chip that will serve from cache or a 256 GB SSD. Selected CPU appears to be Intel Core i5-3317U MHz to 1.7 GHz with a Turbo mode to 2.6 GHz for 3 MB of L3 cache and can be with 10 GB of RAM DDR3. The graphic part seems to be managed by the Intel HD 4000 of the new processors Ivy Bridge of the skier.

      

Input/output level, it offers a HDMI port, an SD card reader, taking jack for audio output and a second for the microphone, the now classic WiFi a/b/g and n, Bluetooth 4.0 as well as the WiDi for viewing external wireless and Ethernet making slim format which will require an adapter to work. For more security, Toshiba provides its U845W of a Kensington port to lock his machine. To 1.57 Kg, the machine is 36.8 cm wide and 20 cm long and 2 cm thick with an aluminum case covered plastic "Soft Touch" on some parts.

Available for pre-order, it in will cost $ 999 with a date of availability yet unknown in France. Hope that the exchange rate will be in our favour.

   

The ultra-portable Toshiba Portégé R835, last updated

The refresh of the R700 offers the Intel Sandy Bridge support, but does not alter the level of design. Toshiba aligns the entry price to compete with the Ultrabooks.

Toshiba updates its ultra-portable Portégé R700 and names R835. For the R835, Toshiba made that change the Interior to accommodate a family Sandy Bridge processor supported by 2 GB memory RAM additional. The speed of the processor chosen is substantially the same except for the Turbo Core loses 100 MHz at the crossing. But the CPU of the Sandy Bridge range are generally more efficient, and the 2 GB of RAM and more will confirm this impression.

A summary table of the Toshiba Portégé R835 specifications

Note that this computer is a ultra-portable (and not a Ultrabook), so that there is no flash drive but a disk shelf which rotates only 5400 t/m. is on this point that the new Portégé does not meet the technical specifications of Intel in Ultrabooks. For the rest, it remains in the dimensions and weight, making thus a small laptop not expensive.

Course will be replaced after the fact its hard disk to a flash drive or, for example, a Seagate Momentus 750 GB XT that contains a cache in 8 GB SLC SSD to win a little in performance and startup time. The Toshiba Portégé R835 sells between $ 800 for the entry-level model and $ 1649 for the top of range, which is equipped with a 128 GB SSD. All these new machines should arrive on the French ground a few days time that Toshiba fulfils its stocks.