Toshiba Extends PMR to 'Short' 1.8-Inch Hard Disk Drive Family; Second-Generation 80GB PMR Drive Delivers 10 Percent Smaller Footprint and Industry's Highest Capacity in This Form Factor for CE and PC Devices
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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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(InfoWorld) - Higher capacity laptop computers andÂ music players could be on the way thanks to a new hard-disk drive from ToshibaÂ that manages a 25 percent jump in storage space over current models. The new 1.8-inch hard-disk drive can store 100GB of information whereas current models hold a maximum of 80GB. The drives are about the same size as a PC Card and are commonly used in music players, like Apple Computer's iPod, and compact laptop computers. Toshiba plans to start mass producing the drives in January next year. The company doesn't sell them direct to end-users but to other companies for integration into their products. In the past device makers have typically incorporated higher capacity drives quickly into their products. The drive will be on show at the Consumer Electronic Show, which takes place in Las Vegas from Jan. 8 to 11. Toshiba first developed a 1.8-inch drive in 2000. The device, which was at the time the highest capacity such drive available, could hold up to 2GB of data and cost around Â¥80,000 ($740 at the time). Today the drives have not only risen in capacity but also fallen in price to the point where an Apple iPod, which includes an 80GB drive and color screen, costs $349.
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All three models to be released use a 1.8-inch hard drive that can hold up to 2,500, 5,000 and 15,000 pieces of music, respectively.
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Dec 16, 2004: The storage race for higher capacity and smaller sized storage hard disk drives continues with Toshiba being the latest vendor to break into the lead with the release of its newest invention.
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IBM recently unveiled the TotalStorage DS6000, a roughly VCR-size system aimed at mid-size businesses. The new DS8000 series system features IBM Power5 microprocessors and IBM&#39;s Virtualization
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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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In a first-to-market move, Seagate Technology is now shipping its new 2.5-inch notebook PC hard drives with built-in encryption technology. ASI Computer Technologies will be the first laptop manufacturer to incorporate the technology into its hardware.
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The 0.85-inch diameter drive is a candidate for cell phone storage, but can the product compete against flash memory?
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Hitachi announced it would be shipping 2.5in hard drives with capacities up to 100GB for notebook computers by the end of 2004. The Travelstar 5K100 and E5K100 hard drives
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Hitachi Global Storage Technologies is launching a new line of 1.8-inch Travelstar C4K60 hard drives. The new drives will feature high-density 30GB platters and ZIF (zero insertion force) connectors for use
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New 1.8-inch hard drives may boost battery life in portable devices.
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Hard drive maker Seagate has begun shipping what it claims is the world&#39;s highest capacity PC hard drive: a 400GB beast that&#39;s also the first drive of its class to hold up to 133GB on a single platter.
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A little over a year after it premiered the first commercially available solid-state hard disk drives at about 32 GB capacity, Samsung said it's now mass-producing a package announced last March at an electronics show in Taiwan, that clusters eight 8 GB flash components together, while still maintaining the 1.8-inch form factor needed for portable devices.
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Second-generation perpendicular recording tech Fujitsu has unveiled what it claims is the world's first 2.5in, notebook-oriented SATA hard drive with a "second-generation perpendicular recording"-boosted capacity of 300GB.â¦
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Toshiba Corp. plans to begin commercial production of its 0.85-inch hard disk drive before the end of this year, the company said on Tuesday.
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TOKYO --(Business Wire)-- Dec. 13, 2004 -- Perpendicular Recording Technology Achieves 1.8-Inch Drive That Holds the Industry Largest 80-Gigabytes of Information.
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IBM on Tuesday announced two new storage products â 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.