Wednesday, August 17, 2005
Toshiba Corp. announced it has started shipping production quantities of a 1.8-inch hard disk drive using perpendicular recording to pack 40-Gbytes of memory storage on a single platter, about 10-Gbytes per platter more than on its existing drives.
The higher capacity gives Toshiba an edge as it seeks design wins against lower-capacity but smaller one-inch sized drives in MP3 players and higher capacity 2.5-inch drives in notebook computers. Toshiba’s previous product put 30-Gbytes on a 1.8-inch platter using conventional longitudinal recording.
The announcement marks the beginning of the end of a 20-year quest to commercialize perpendicular recording to boost drive capacity. Hitachi Global Storage Technologies and Seagate Technology are expected to ship 2.5- and 3.5-inch drives using perpendicular recording later this year.
Toshiba will begin production shipments of a two-platter 1.8-inch drive sporting 80Gbytes storage later this quarter. The company would not comment on price of the drives.
By: DocMemory
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