New Toshiba 100GB 1.8-Inch Hard Drive

Toshiba announced today through a company release its new 100GB 1.8 inch hard drives for notebooks and portable media. The new Toshiba MK1011GAH hard disks have the highest storage capacity, having 25% more storage space than the other current models of that size (which can hold up to 80GB).

With an areal density of 155.3 Gbit/in2, the drive is specially designed for thin and light mobile computers with an 8MB cache. In addition, Toshiba’s new 1.8-inch capacity leader features the same tunnel magneto-resistive (TMR) head technology combined with perpendicular recording that delivered the company’s world-leading 200GB capacity in the 2.5-inch HDD class with an areal density of 178.8 Gbit/in2.

The manufacturer will start mass-producing the new devices in February 2007.

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