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Perpendicular Recording Promises Roomier IPods

News Toshiba claimed a new benchmark in storage density on Tuesday as it unveiled its largest ever 1.8-inch hard drive. Toshiba's previous 1.8-inch hard drives are used by Apple in its iPod range, so it's possible that the MK8007GAH could be used to...

[December 14, 2004, 15:30]

'Biggest Ever' 1.8-in Drive Launched By Toshiba

News Toshiba claimed a breakthrough in hard drive technology on Wednesday with the launch of a 1.8-inch disk drive with a capacity of 60GB. The company claims that the MK6006GAH drive is the biggest 1.8-inch drive ever.

[August 4, 2004, 15:50]

Bigger Toshiba Minidrive May Boost IPod Capacity

News Toshiba said on Wednesday that it plans to release a 60GB version of its 1.8-inch hard drive, potentially paving the way for higher capacity iPods. Toshiba's planned 1.8-inch drive will have two platters, each holding 30GB of data.

[June 3, 2004, 12:50]

Hitachi Increases Drive Capacity

News Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, the hard-drive division of the Japanese giant, announced at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas that it has reduced the size of its minidrives and its 1.8-inch drives through better packaging and...

[January 10, 2005, 15:15]

Rivals Line Up Behind IPod

News A 1.8-inch hard drive has a 40GB capacity, which can translate into more than 650 hours of music. Later this month, Dell is expected to include a 1.8-inch hard drive in its Dell Digital Jukebox portable MP3 player.

[October 23, 2003, 11:15]

SanDisk's New Flash Drive Reveals Price Drop

News The flash memory maker's new flash drive sports 32GB of memory and is delivered in a package the same size and shape as a 2.5-inch diameter hard drive. Earlier this year, SanDisk released a 32GB drive in a 1.8-inch diameter package.

[March 14, 2007, 7:55]

Toshiba Unveils Mini Microdrive

News At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas next month, Toshiba will unveil a hard drive that measures less than an inch across, as the mini-mass-storage market marches on. The capacity of the new drive is not yet known, but Hitachi and others...

[December 11, 2003, 14:25]

Toshiba Unveils Hard Drive For Mobile Phones

News The long-rumoured 0.85-inch drive, which Toshiba claims is the smallest in the world, is on show at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Toshiba's 0.85-inch drive is slightly smaller than the one-inch drives produced by Hitachi, Cornice and...

[January 8, 2004, 12:50]

Toshiba Pins High Expectations On Minidrive

News IBM came out with a one-inch drive in the 1990s, but the latest iPod is one of the first products to incorporate it. Toshiba was the first manufacturer to put out a 1.8-inch drive, developing a lead that took place in part because no one else...

[January 8, 2004, 11:41]

NEC Device Combines Notebook With PDA

News The Mini-PC is a full-fledged Windows XP PC containing a 1.8-inch hard drive -- the same thing found on Apple's iPod -- and a 5.7-inch touch screen. Like a mininotebook, the MobilePro 900 has a keyboard that's nearly the same size as those found on...

[May 12, 2003, 9:20]

Toshiba Touts Data Density Record With New Drive

News The Japanese electronics giant is coming out with a 2.5-inch drive for notebooks later this year with platters (the silver pancakes in a drive that hold data) that hold 178.8 gigabits per square inch, which will likely be a record when the drive...

[June 5, 2006, 9:25]

Hitachi Slides Faster Drive Into Notebooks

News Later this month, the US-based unit of the Japanese electronics giant plans to release a 60GB 2.5-inch-diameter hard drive that uses the new "femto" slider. As the holiday season approaches, you will see a whole host of products that will use the...

[May 14, 2003, 14:44]

Dell DJ Set To Debut

News Hitachi announced the 1.8-inch drive earlier this year and began shipping it to customers in July. Hitachi Global Storage Technologies is supplying the 1.8-inch diameter drives in the Dell DJ, marking a major customer win for Hitachi.

[October 27, 2003, 14:50]

Hitachi Sees Money In Hard Drives

News Hitachi will also have a 15,000 rpm 3.5-inch drive with a 73GB capacity available in the second quarter. Hitachi on Monday will also announce that in the second quarter it will have 20GB and 40GB 1.8-inch and 20GB 2.5-inch drives available.

[January 6, 2003, 9:32]

Samsung And Seagate Release Hard Drives

News On Tuesday, Samsung announced three hard drives: a 1.8-inch 120GB model, a 3.5-inch 1TB drive and a 2.5-inch, 120GB "hybrid" drive that includes flash memory as well as the traditional spinning platters.

[June 20, 2007, 16:06]

Toshiba Turbocharges Tiny Drive

News The company's Storage Device Division said on Wednesday that it has revised its 1.8-inch hard drive in two models, one capable of storing 20GB of data and the other 40GB. The 1.8-inch drive, which has been used in products such as portable music...

[November 5, 2003, 15:55]

Start-up Creates Tiny Hard Drives For Gadgets

News Mechanically, it has about one-third of the parts of a Hitachi Microdrive," which is also a one-inch drive, Magenis said. The Longmont, Colorado-based start-up has developed a 1.5GB, 1-inch diameter hard drive for consumer-electronics devices that...

[June 4, 2003, 7:28]

Seagate Reveals Hard Drive Roadmap

News A new line of drives made for handheld devices, the ST18 series, includes a 1.8-inch perpendicular hard drive (a drive that stacks bits vertically for more capacity) that holds 60GB on a single platter.

[June 8, 2006, 9:25]

Samsung Puts Hard Drive In A Mobile

News The convergence of mobile phones and other portable devices shuffled another step forward on Monday when Samsung launched a handset that contained a 1.5GB hard drive with a one-inch diameter. Hard drive manufacturers are constantly competing to...

[September 7, 2004, 9:35]

Tiny Toshiba Drives To Offer Storage Aplenty

News IBM offers the 1-inch Microdrive, a tiny hard drive with capacities ranging from 170MB to 1GB. Based on the design of the company's 2.5-inch notebook PC drives, the new 1.8-inch designs are smaller than a credit card in width and length and, at 5mm...

[January 16, 2002, 16:33]


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