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Toshiba's New 200GB Drive Could Find its Way Into iPod Competition

Monday, June 5th, 2006 at 1:45 PM - by

Toshiba on Monday introduced a new 2.5-inch hard drive that can hold up to 200GB of data with two platters, thanks to its use of perpendicular magnetic recording technology. The technology was developed as a way to increase the storage capacities of hard drives, which were starting to hit their limit with older technology.

Toshiba said it will start mass producing the drive in August and will feature it during the Computex Taipei trade show being held this week in Taiwan. The company said that it expects the new product to find its way into not only laptops but also portable media players.

PC World pointed out the possibility that the new drive could "play a role in Toshiba's planned digital audio player to be developed in conjunction with Microsoft and Japan's DoCoMo for the Japanese market." Microsoft clarified that rumor on Monday, however, saying that such reports were the result of mistranslation.

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jimothy said:

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Mon Jun 05, 2006 3:06 pm

Oh yes, definitely, as the market has cried again and again that it wants bulky music players based on 2.5" drives.

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A guest said: (hide)

Mon Jun 05, 2006 3:19 pm

The ipod at most uses a 1.8" drive. It would be great if MSFT and its gang(sters) used a 2.5" device, what a brick that would be.

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gslusher said:

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Mon Jun 05, 2006 5:51 pm

2.5" drives are for laptops, not small devices like the iPod.

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A guest said: (hide)

Mon Jun 05, 2006 6:35 pm

Sounds perfect for this new device then, designing a device to be crap from the outset will be a lot cheaper than finding it out after it goes to market.

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LaurieF said:

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Mon Jun 05, 2006 6:50 pm

gslusher wrote:
2.5" drives are for laptops, not small devices like the iPod.

Note that the article is about iPod competition aka iPod killersâ„¢, not about the iPod itself. It could go in the larger format portable media players, for example.

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A guest said: (hide)

Tue Jun 06, 2006 8:28 am

It still won't be an iPod. If Apple ever needs it, they get it.

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