Toshiba Ships 25 Million 1.8" Hard Drives

Company announces its milestone achievement of production and shipment of drives which are found in devices like notebook computers and MP3 players.

Toshiba earlier this week announced they’d surpassed worldwide production and shipment of 25 million 1.8-inch hard drives. This form factor of hard drive is popular in consumer electronics devices such as notebook computers and MP3 players.

Toshiba’s 1.8-inch hard drives, the company said, are available in storage capacities of in 20GB, 30GB, 40GB, 60GB and 80GB. In January 2006, the company shipped its second 1.8-inch HDD based on perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) technology, delivering 80GB of capacity on a drive the size of a credit card.

“The 1.8-inch HDD is well positioned to meet the burgeoning demand for smaller form factor, significant capacity drives,” said Scott Maccabe, vice president and general manager, Toshiba SDD, in a statement. “Since its introduction, Toshiba has more than doubled the capacity of the 1.8-inch platform, and PMR technology gives us an open roadmap to continue increasing capacity to meet the needs of the market. The 1.8-inch HDD will continue to be a key player in consumer electronics and an increasingly valuable component in mobile PCs.”