Toshiba Unveils 1.8-Inch 60GB Drive

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edited August 2004 in Science & Tech
Toshiba will begin mass-producing a 60GB, 1.8-inch hard disk drive before the end of the year--a boon to digital music players, subnotebook computers, and other devices that rely on the tiny disk storage. The new drive offers a 50 percent improvement in storage space over Toshiba's current highest-capacity 1.8-inch hard-disk drive.
The major contributing factor to this capacity boost is an advancement in a thin-film technology used for both the head and platter, says Midori Suzuki, a spokesperson for Toshiba in Tokyo. The new technology allowed Toshiba to increase the areal density at which data can be stored on the disk's surface, from 61.2GB per square inch to 93.5GB on the new models. This means each disk platter in the new drives can accommodate 30GB of data, as compared with 20GB in the current highest-capacity 1.8-inch drive. As a result, a two-platter drive can hold up to 60GB of data (versus today's 40GB).
Source: PCWorld
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