 | Toshiba
introduces World's smallest hard disk drive
Company develops first 0.85-inch HDD for mobile
phones and portable consumer electronics
12 January 2004
Toshiba Storage Device Division (SDD),
the industry pioneer in small form factor storage, today announced
the development of a 0.85-inch hard disk drive (HDD), the first
drive to deliver multi-gigabyte storage in a sub-one-inch form
factor. Expected to be available in 2GB and 4GB capacities, Toshiba
will start sampling the new drive in summer 2004, with mass production
to begin in late 2004.
Measuring only a quarter of the size of Toshiba’s 1.8-inch
drive, the 0.85-inch HDD is expected to boost the functionality
of a new generation of products, including mobile phones, digital
audio players, PDAs, digital still cameras, camcorders and external
storage devices. Toshiba initially plans to introduce capacities
of 2GB and 4GB, and anticipates achievement of even higher densities
in the 0.85-inch form factor.
Toshiba set the stage for small format HDDs in 2000 with a removable
1.8-inch PC Card HDD in a 2GB capacity. The company has subsequently
rolled out a series of products that consistently helps customers
to create groundbreaking, innovative and necessary products for
today’s mobile environment. Toshiba’s 1.8-inch embedded
drives are now available in 5GB, 10GB, 15GB, 20GB, 30GB and 40GB
capacities and are the storage devices enabling some of the hottest
portable products on the market.
"Hard disk drive technology has migrated from the computer
to digital music players to mobile phones and other portable gadgets
that require meaningful storage capacities in a pocket-size form
factor," said Amy Dalphy, manager, HDD business unit, Toshiba
SDD. "Toshiba continues to lead and enable the market by
expanding storage possibilities with gigabytes of capacity packed
into a tiny hard disk drive that fits on your fingertip."
A prototype of the 0.85-inch HDD will be shown at Toshiba’s
booth (#12214) on the CES show
floor January 8-11, 2004. For more information about Toshiba’s
2.5-inch, 1.8-inch and 0.85-inch HDDs, visit www.harddrives.toshiba.com.
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