Toshiba has announced a significant expansion to its 1.8-inch hard drive line, adding the MKxx29GSG series of SATA drives, with the top model coming in with a whopping 250 GB of storage. The 1.8-inch HDD form factor is most-frequently seen in portable media players, camcorders, and ultra-portable computers, and significantly raises the bar for storage available to those devices.
“Portable PCs continue to make the transition to the SATA interface. IDC estimates that 84 percent of mobile HDD shipments in the second quarter of 2008 were SATA,” said IDC research director John Rydning, in a statement. “Toshiba’s implementation of SATA 3.0 GB/s for its new 1.8-inch HDD product line will facilitate adoption in a broad range of portable PC form factors.”
