“Toshiba’s storage division today said that it has produced the world’s highest-capacity, 1.8-inch hard drive with 100GB of storage. The new drive uses perpendicular magnetic recording, where bits are aligned vertically on the platter, to achieve the new record-setting density,” Electronista reports.
“Toshiba plans to start manufacturing the 100GB model in January,” Electronista reports.
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“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,” Martyn Williams eports for IDG News Service.
Williams reports, “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 $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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