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- Build Quality, Ideal For OS Use (SSDLike Performance For Cached Files), Very Low Temperatures, Low Power Consumption (2.5W At Load), 3 Years Warranty, Price (For Some)
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Toshiba 2.5 inch SSHD MQ01ABD Series SATA600
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Expert reviews and ratings
By pcGameware UK
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What's important here is not the packaging the design or the quality, this drive really is all about one thing and that's performance and capacity. As there's very little else to compare it against it's difficult to place. It's not even a regular size...
By micromart.co.uk
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80
You will probably have gathered from my review of the 3TB DT01ACA300 that I consider Toshiba to be a laptop drive company. While it has successfully branched out into desktop drives, it still has a good deal of expertise on the laptop side of things. It...
By MyCE
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90
Welcome to Myce's review of the Toshiba MQ01ABD100H 1000GB Solid State Hybrid Drive (‘SSHD') and the very latest generation, MQ01ABF050H 500GB SSHD, both of which have only recently become available for review by European Reviewers.At the heart of the...
By CNET Australia
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60
If you can afford the comparatively high price, the new drive is a great replacement for that old hard drive inside your aging...
By Ocaholic
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100
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...
By PC Advisor
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90
The Toshiba MQ01ABD100 was found to not only have superior read/write performance to its 12.5mm Toshiba forebear, but also trumped the previous-fastest Western Digital 9.5mm 1TB notebook disk. If you’re looking for huge storage in a 2.5in drive, the...
By uk.hardware.info
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Now that the prices of SSDs have dropped to well below 50 cents per GB, we expect that only few Hardware.Info readers will still want to use a conventional hard drive as their primary storage device. We still can't quite live without them, however,...
By eTeknix
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Toshiba is one of the world's leading suppliers when it comes to OEM Hard drives, so it's no surprise that they also want to be part of the Hybrid Drive wave led by WD, with their own OEM drives and range of consumer SSHD drives. Today we're taking a...
By NikkTech
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The MQ01ABD100H 1TB SSHD by Toshiba is actually the 6th hybrid drive I've gotten my hands onto over the years and so i really was hoping to see something new in terms of read/write performance (although i also knew that's next to impossible right now for...
By MadShrimps
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The MQ01ABD100H 1TB hybrid drive from Toshiba has given us a similar experience as we have seen before with the standalone caching SSD from KingFast but this time the NAND flash is placed on the PCB of the drive without the need of having two...
By uk.hardware.info
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Most of our avid readers of course have at least one SSD in their desktop and laptop, but for large volume storage you're still relegated to conventional hard disks. It's almost become a negative connotation - 'conventional' - and it really doesn't do...
By MyCE
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Up until recently, 1TB 2.5” hard disks were only available in a 12.5mm height. Here, Toshiba has managed to fit 1TB in a 9.5mm drive height due its use of 2 higher density platters. Sequential performance is fast for a 2.5” hard disk and from our...
By Tom's Hardware UK
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Over the past few years, 2.5" hard disk capacities have grown by leaps and bounds. And although they're still typically slower than 3.5" drives, performance in the 2.5" form factor continues to increase due to higher data density. Today, even 2.5" drives positioned as quiet energy-savers manage sequential transfer rates over 85 MB/s, while more performance-oriented disks sport transfer rates just shy of 100...
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