Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corp.has announced the new DT02 hard drive in a 3.5-inch form factor.It features Drive-Managed SMR (Shingled Magnetic Recording) technology.Image source: ToshibaThe new drive has a capacity of 2TB and spindle speed of 7200rpm.Standard SATA 3.0 interface is used for connection.Drive-Managed SMR technology combines the Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) method and a number of performance optimizations such as hardware write management, cache and more.It claims to deliver up to 210MB/s performance improvements of up to 19% over its predecessor, while its MTBF (mean time between failures) is up to 600,000 hours.The disk is intended to be used in desktop computers, all-in-one PCs and also in external drives.There is no information about approximate price yet.
