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Toshiba launches thinner spinner

Seagate's failure to capitalise on its start-of-year areal density advantages is being laid bare: Toshiba has followed Samsung and Western Digital by adding a 1TB, standard format notebook drive to its roster, leaving Seagate out in the cold. Toshiba's MQ01ABD is an advance on its 3-platter, 1TB notebook drive, the MK1059GSM, …

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what tosser thought of that one...

"it has a 12.5mm z-height (thickness)"

z-height??? proper English, not management bull please...

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Disambiguation is good.

You don't want to confuse it with z-depth, z-width or z-length, after all.

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Management Bull?

René Descartes. You may google him at your leisure.

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if it's 12.5mm thick...

...why not just say so.

Writing "z-height" in a marketing description is management bullshit. I very much doubt Descartes ever used the term "z-height" (in French or any other language) when specifying the thickness of an object.

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