Thursday, January 13, 2005
Toshiba's Tiny Hard Disks Start Shipping
Posted by Jonathon Watkins in "NEWS" @ 04:00 PM
"Toshiba said Thursday that it is about to start shipping its .85-inch, 2GB hard drive aimed at use in smartphones and other mobile devices. In addition, the company said it will start shipping a 4 GB version of the drive about the middle of the year with capacities increasing to as much as 8 GB in 2006. . . . Besides smartphones, the company said it expected the drives to be attractive for use in devices such as PDAs, digital cameras and media players. "
There have been a flurry of tiny hard disk announcements recently and this looks to be an area where we can expect significant future developments. The Toshiba hard drive weighs less than three grams, so it's light as well as being minute. Well these drives are shipping now, so lets see when the first Pocket PC with embedded hard drive arrives. I wonder how they will co-marketing them; as MP3 players, Photo viewers or video players. What would you do with the space if your next PPC happens to have a hard drive?
There have been a flurry of tiny hard disk announcements recently and this looks to be an area where we can expect significant future developments. The Toshiba hard drive weighs less than three grams, so it's light as well as being minute. Well these drives are shipping now, so lets see when the first Pocket PC with embedded hard drive arrives. I wonder how they will co-marketing them; as MP3 players, Photo viewers or video players. What would you do with the space if your next PPC happens to have a hard drive?
