Toshiba's 100GB 1.8'' Hard Drive

[Multimedia]

HDV Camera's Will Be Getting These First

Really need that size for HDV Field Production work. At 13GB an hour the 100GB drive will be able to hold almost an entire day's worth - 7 hours = 91GB - of shooting. Seagate 120 would be much better as it can hold full 8+ hours worth of HDV footage.

 

[Danksi]

Wow, pretty soon iPods are gonna have more hard drive space than my laptop.

I was just thinking that myself, as I was slowly scrolling down the page!

 

[wizard]

I'm hoping Apple announces upgraded iPods with this drive.

That about sums it up, the sooner the better too. Not a big fan of the drive for audio but it is the cats a$$ for storage of digital pictures. If you are a photographer it is a very good back up device, the only thing missing is a compact flash port.

A video iPod would be good too, but it looks like that is a few weeks (months) off.

As tot he ultra compact Mac Book that is rumored that would be a good place for this drive also. If it has a drive at all. Personally I'd love to see Apple come out with an all solid state laptop. That is no hard drive and no internal CDROM. While the OLPC program isn't about to solve any problems, some of the concepts that the program has developed I would love to see in a laptop.

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This is in regard to prior messages concerning the reliability of these drives. The implication was that they don't hold to heavy write usage. Anybody got the real scoop or is this old data from the early days of small form factor drives. I ask because frankly a RAID array of these drives would be very useful in the field. That due to both the size and the compactness.

Dave

 

[iMeowbot]

While the drive is being billed as the largest 1.8" drive, Seagate announced 120GB 1.8" drives which were targeted for the last quarter of 2006.

In the Seagate literature, only the 60GB variety of the ST18 series has surfaced. The 120GB part is MIA.

My guess- These drives will see use in iPods in Q1 2008.

Hard to say. The 80GB Toshiba drives were shipping for months before Apple started using them.

 

[charkshark]

120 GB widescreen video iPod! Yes, I want one!

Frederic

Exactly, These are for the TRUE VIDEO iPods.
Would also be nice if they could get these things into the 12" Ultrathin Macbook Pros of speculation. NICE!

Nice dreaming....

 

[princealfie]

my guess- apple will go bigger.

just how big eh?

 

[glowingstar]

wow.... 100/120 gigs in a 1.8" package. in my day, i was just excited to have 100megs in zip disk format!

 

[EagerDragon]

Where is the 750 GB 1.8 drive?

 

[topgun072003]

Where is the 750 GB 1.8 drive?

You didn't hear? Its coming out next Tuesday...psh where have you been?

 

[~Shard~]

Toshiba can continue making larger capacity drives like this but eventually all iPods will move to flash-based storage. It still might be a couple years away, but it will happen at some point - just as I'm sure we'll see a MacBook with flash-based storage as well in the future.

 

[EagerDragon]

You didn't hear? Its coming out next Tuesday...psh where have you been?

That 1.8 750 GB is probably coming at the same time as the PowerBook G5.

 

[simX]

Exactly, These are for the TRUE VIDEO iPods.

Remind me again what is so un-true about the current video iPod?

Actually, it's funny you mentioned that. With the price of flash memory so much lower now than it was a few years ago. maybe it's time for Apple to boost the internal memory on the iPod (the one that gives you 8 minutes or so of skip protection)? More memory would mean fewer spins up of the hard drive if you're listening to play lists straight through. So more battery time.

Eh, I dunno. It's a case of diminishing returns. Even if the iPod could queue up to 100 songs, it would all be for naught the moment you change albums or playlists or anything like that. It actually might even be worse if more often than not it loads songs you don't actually end up playing.

I suppose, though, 32 MB is piddly space for video, which constantly keeps the hard drive running, so in that case, you're probably right.

 

[steelfist]

that's good

 

[zelman]

Perpendicular?

I wonder if there are any major hurdles in implementing perpendicular techology in 1.8" drives. Power or otherwise?

 

[Eduardo1971]

Wow, pretty soon iPods are gonna have more hard drive space than my laptop.

I had the same thought. Technology is amazing!

 

[spicyapple]

I wonder if there are any major hurdles in implementing perpendicular techology in 1.8" drives. Power or otherwise?

Aren't they already using perpendicular technology? This was the main reason they could get so many GBs on 1.8".

 

[Eduardo1971]

120 GB widescreen video iPod! Yes, I want one!

Frederic

Apple, just release a 100GB iPod and you'll have a new buyer.

I really don't care for video. I have a lot of audio files (52GB+).

 

[maxp1]

No, actually you won't... 1.8" drives die very quickly as boot devices. Frequent read/write just kills those little guys.

-Clive

Oh, I did not know that. Maybe that's why my GF's iPod mini died after 2 years. She played that thing like 8 hours every day. (shoulda bought Applecare)

 

[macenforcer]

Archos 504 has 160gb.

 

[jmbear]

I can store 10 more iTMS movies

Cool! I am still waiting on the new NAND chips to replace hard-drives. Samsung has a 8GB one, just put 12 of those and voila! You got almost 100GBs with less energy consumption. Not sure about the cost, space etc... But I think flash is the way to go for mobile consumer electronics.

 

[princealfie]

Cool! I am still waiting on the new NAND chips to replace hard-drives. Samsung has a 8GB one, just put 12 of those and voila! You got almost 100GBs with less energy consumption. Not sure about the cost, space etc... But I think flash is the way to go for mobile consumer electronics.

Dude, you wanna $1300 ipod nano? Hellno, I will stick to 120 gb hard drive 1.8 rite now.

 

[anonicon]

Toshiba can continue making larger capacity drives like this but eventually all iPods will move to flash-based storage. It still might be a couple years away, but it will happen at some point - just as I'm sure we'll see a MacBook with flash-based storage as well in the future.

Regardless of whether your prediction is right or not, I sincerely hope you're wrong. Flash memory, despite its recent size advances, still lags *far* behind regular hard drive storage at a ratio of about 47:1 (top hard drive: 750GB, top flash drive: 16GB) and in cost.

While the announced 120GB 1.8" drive is good news, it still looks like it's going to be a few years beore the iPod comes out with a 500GB hard drive - the general amount of space my no-MP3 music collection takes up. I'd love to be able to carry my entire library around instead of having to choose which parcels to load onto it each week.

Peace.

 

[princealfie]

Regardless of whether your prediction is right or not, I sincerely hope you're wrong. Flash memory, despite its recent size advances, still lags *far* behind regular hard drive storage at a ratio of about 47:1 (top hard drive: 750GB, top flash drive: 16GB) and in cost.

While the announced 120GB 1.8" drive is good news, it still looks like it's going to be a few years beore the iPod comes out with a 500GB hard drive - the general amount of space my no-MP3 music collection takes up. I'd love to be able to carry my entire library around instead of having to choose which parcels to load onto it each week.

Peace.

Why not buy 5 iPods to fit it all?

 

[mahonmeister]

Sooo much space. Would be perfect for lots of video like everyone is saying. But this wouldn't come in time for Mac World would it?

 

[Peel]

120gb... sounds like it'll be fat...

Does anyone know how many platters this (or the Toshiba 100GB) has? Is it the same form factor as the current 80GB drive? It seems that the 2.5" laptop drives are close to topping out at 200GB, and I'm wondering if the technology used in the 120GB 1.8" drive (perhaps something beyond perpendicular recording?) might also breath new life into the 2.5" Format.