AppleInsider is reporting that Toshiba announced today that it will introduce the world’s highest-capacity 1.8 inch hard disk drive, ten times smaller than current similar drives in the 5th generation iPods, and intends to make it compatible with a future 100GB iPod.
The drives smaller size will make it an ideal candidate for thin and light mobile technological devices including laptops and iPods. The new 100 GB HDD is based on perpendicular magnetic recording, or PMR and has a low insertion force (LIF) connector that allows mobile PC manufacturers to convert to other small, high capacity HDDs.
“Toshiba’s technology innovation is setting the bar for mobile HDDs, and our first-to-market position in PMR is clearly helping us define the possibilities for pushing capacity limits in the mobile sector with more than two million mobile PMR HDDs shipped and over a year in commercialization,” said the vice president of Toshiba Storage Device Divison, Scott Maccabe.
