HDD by stefan @ 2018-12-19
The 2TB L200 Toshiba drive is excellent as a second, storage drive in compact systems such as media centers, laptops, consoles or other mini-PCs. The 128 MB buffer really helps enhancing the overall drive performance and thanks to its rotational speed of 5400, it won’t create vibrations inside the chassis. For enhancing the drive reliability, it includes a shock sensor and the MTTF is rated at 600000 hours.
At first we would like to thank Toshiba Corporation for offering a sample of their L200 2TB Laptop PC Hard Drive for testing and reviewing.
“Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation and its affiliates (Toshiba) supply a wide range of innovative hard disk drive (HDD) products to meet the varied demands of the diversified storage marketplace. Products include high capacity power-efficient storage for Cloud Data Centers, capacity and performance HDDs for Enterprise IT, client HDDs for PC/Desktop, and specialty drives for Surveillance, NAS systems, set-top box video, gaming and external storage. Toshiba aims to continue to advance HDD technologies and innovation to meet and exceed customer requirements across a broad spectrum of storage market segments.”
Upgrade your space
For a large upgrade in a small device, the L200 HDD is capable of adding up to 2 TB to laptops or game consoles, for quick and easy access to large gaming files, or everyday documents and media. It comes with up to 128 MB buffer.
Keep data secure
The L200’s design includes an internal shock sensor, ensuring none of your data is lost. In addition, ramp loading technology means that when the hard drive, game console or notebook are being transported, the drive slider does not make contact with the disk, making your data more secure.
Optimized cache allocation
Toshiba’s Dynamic Cache Technology, a self-contained cache algorithm with on-board buffer management, optimizes how the cache is allocated during read/write to provide the high-level performance demanded by real-time domains.
Enhanced access performance
The data read/write access sequence performance is further enhanced through innovative techniques to minimize head movement and disk revolutions. Optimized data access sequence helps improve performance and minimize mechanical workload from the drive.
Built to deliver, designed to last
Toshiba is renowned the world over for 50 years of leading innovation – and the power behind its range of hard drives is no exception. Designed for high capacity and excellent performance, you can be sure that Toshiba’s wealth of experience in hard drives is at work in your storage system.
In this article, we will look upon the latest 2.5’’ laptop PC HDD series from Toshiba, which is named L200; it is available with 500GB, 500GB Slim, 1TB, 1TB Slim and 2TB SKUs. The 500GB, 500GB Slim and 1TB models do feature 8MB of cache, while the 1TB Slim and 2TB variants have 128MB cache size.
Thanks to Toshiba’s Dynamic Cache technology, it is optimized how the cache is allocated during read/write operations in order to provide better performance.
The product is shipped in a small cardboard enclosure that mentions the total product capacity, rotational speed, buffer quantity and more:
On the back side we will get to see a comparison between different product series, but also some words regarding warranty, depending on location:
Air cushion packaging is spotted inside the box, along with documentation:
The drive does feature a large sticker on the top area, which shows the technical information; here we will also learn of the manufacturing date:
A breathing hole is also noted on the top layer, which must not be covered with the drive mounted inside the system:
On the sides of the 9.5mm drive, we do have screw mounts available:
In the back, the drive does feature the usual SATA Data/Power ports, but also some extra pins that will not be used in normal operation:
The frontal area of the drive does come with another SN sticker:
On the bottom area, we can see the PCB, along with the 5400 rpm motor contact area:
The testbench was composed from the following hardware:
CPU: Intel I5 9700K Retail
CPU Cooler: Deepcool Captain 240 EX RGB AIO
Motherboard: Gigabyte Z370 AORUS Ultra Gaming
RAM: Patriot Memory Viper RGB Series DDR4
Video: KFA2 GeForce GTX 1060 OC 6GB
Power Supply: Cooler Master 850W
SSD: OCZ Vector 150
Case: Cooler Master ATCS 840
The L200 drive has arrived unformatted:
We have formatted the drive NTFS before starting the actual testing:
With the help of AIDA64, we will be able to extract some more information about the drive:
The 2TB L200 Toshiba drive is excellent as a second, storage drive in compact systems such as media centers, laptops, consoles or other mini-PCs. The 128 MB buffer really helps enhancing the overall drive performance and thanks to its rotational speed of 5400, it won’t create vibrations inside the chassis. For enhancing the drive reliability, it includes a shock sensor and the MTTF is rated at 600000 hours.
The most spacious 2TB version can be picked up online for about 79 Euros.
We would like to thank Toshiba Corporation for making this review possible!