Toshiba Unveils New 80GB, 160GB 1.8-inch Hard Disks
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Toshiba Storage Device Division today introduced new 80GB and 160GB 1.8-inch hard disks--the same size disk drives as are used in the iPod classic.
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Toshiba is close to commercializing a new data storage technology that could significantly increase the capacity of hard-disk drives, it said Tuesday.
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(InfoWorld) - On Tuesday Toshiba will unveil the first slim-type HD DVD writer drive suitable for use in laptop computers. The SD-L902A drive is the standard 12.7-millimeters high, which means it can fit in the drive bay of most laptop computers. It can read and write HD DVD, DVD, and CD discs, Toshiba said Monday. It will be shown at the Ceatec show, Japan's biggest electronics show, that begins Tuesday. At last year's Ceatec, Toshiba debuted its slim-type HD DVD reader. The first laptop to feature the drive, its Qosmio G30,Â went on sale earlier this year. Samples of the new writer drive will be available to PC makers by the end of this year, and if it follows the same path as the read-only model, it could be on sale in laptops in 2007. HD DVD is one of two formats battling to replace DVD as the de facto storage standard for high-definition movies. In addition to their home entertainment applications the discs can also be used to store data. A single-sided HD DVD-R can store 15GB of data. A disc for the competing Blu-ray Disc format can store 25GB on a single-side. This year's Ceatec is expected to see the unveiling of several new products for the two new formats. The show will kick-off Tuesday with a SonyÂ news conference at which the company is promising a new Blu-ray Disc product. Sony hasn't said what it will be but the company recently showed a prototype Blu-ray Disc video recorder. A similar prototype recorder was also recently displayed by Hitachi.
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New hard drive technology developed with Tohoku University could increase areal density to 1Tbit/sq inch and beyond.
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Blog: Seagate announces two drives with 1 terabyte of capacity, while Iomega expands its portable hard drive line.
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InfoWorld - IBM on Tuesday announced two new storage products &#8211; upper midrange and high-end disk arrays designed for ease of use and lower cost. The DS6000 and DS8000 feature higher physical storage capacities, a modular architecture, and additional visualization technology, all in systems considerably smaller than previous versions.
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Toshiba Storage Device Division (SDD), the industry pioneer in small form factor hard disk drives (HDDs), continues to lead the transition to perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) with the extension of PMR technology to its "short" 1.8-inch HDD family.
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Seagate has launched the highest capacity PC hard disk to date. Pitched at desktop computers, the new Barracuda 7200.8 hard disk is a 7200rpm model that&#39;s available with either a fast SATA or Ultra ATA interface
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WiebeTech ToughTech external mini drives are now available in 200GB and 250GB capacities.
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Please, please, please say I didn't hit 'Quick Erase'... Hitachi Global Storage Technologies has begun volume shipment of the Travelstar 7K200, a high-capacity, high-performance laptop hard drive with new optional data encryption technology. The new drive features up to 200GB capacity, a 22 per cent overall performance improvement over its predecessor, and improved shock tolerance, among other technical improvements. The 7200RPM Travelstar 7K200 has power consumption, heat emission, and acoustics comparable to its 5400RPM counterparts and features a Serial ATA 1.5GBps, 1.5GBps encrypted, or 3GBps interface.â¦
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Blog: Samsung announces a 1.8-inch, 120GB drive; a 2.5-inch, 120GB hybrid drive; and a 3.5-inch 1-terabyte drive, while Seagate goes rugged with an 80GB model.
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Seagate announced today the availability of a 400 gigabyte (GB) Barracuda 7200.8 model for high-end PC&#39;s and entry-level servers.
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(InfoWorld) - Fujitsu will soon bring the benefits of perpendicular recording technology to its family of 2.5-inch hard-disk drives. The company is planning to launch two new drives worldwide in October, an 80GB and 160GB model, aimed at consumer laptop computers that also boast a high resistance to shocks, the Tokyo company said Wednesday. The latter is the highest capacity 5,400 rpm yet announced by a drive manufacturer, according to Fujitsu. Perpendicular recording is a relatively new magnetic recording method that is being increasingly employed on many hard-disk drives. The method, like the previous longitudinal recording, relies on magnetically charged particles for data storage. However in the new method the north and south poles of the magnetic particles are arranged perpendicular to the disc rather than running parallel to the disc. The result is that each particle occupies a smaller area of the disk's surface and so more particles can be crammed onto it. At the same time the company will also begin selling versions of the drives aimed at consumer electronics products such as digital video recorders. Key features of these drives are low noise levels and low power consumption.
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Toshiba has announced an 80GB version of the 1.8in hard drives used in the iPod. The drive sets a new capacity record for its size and combines several developments including a new magnetic disk structured
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Japan&#39;s Toshiba Corp. said on Wednesday it would introduce notebook computers with HD DVD technology in the last quarter of 2005 in a move to pressure rivals in the battle over formats for next-generation DVDs.
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Toshiba said Monday that it had produced the first HD DVD writer for mobile PCs, which would also have read and write capabilities for standard DVD as well as CD discs. At 12.8 millimeters in height, Toshiba says that the unit would be able to be used in most slim form factor laptops.
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December 08, 2004 - Memory-Tech Corp. and Toshiba have announced that they have developed a dual-layer disc that can store both standard DVD and HD-DVD formats, on different layers.