200 GB notebook hard drives to enter volume production in Q3

Iria · Jun 23, 2006, 12:45 AM

Source: TG Daily
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Showa Denko, a Japan-based major supplier of hard disk media announced that it will begin mass production of 2.5" hard drive platters with a capacity of 100 GB each in the third quarter of this year. Showa Denko is currently the only hard drive media manufacturer that has confirmed a capability to produce such devices.

The 2.5" platters will be using perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) technology to achieve a density of 178 Gb/square inch. Showa Denko's customer includes hard drive manufacturers such as Toshiba, Western Digital as well as other smaller drive manufacturers that do not have the capacity to develop their own platters, such as Seagate and Hitachi GST.

Jun 23, 2006, 12:45 AM	#1
Iria DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 7,275 Rep Power: 89	200 GB notebook hard drives to enter volume production in Q3 Source: TG Daily __________ Showa Denko, a Japan-based major supplier of hard disk media announced that it will begin mass production of 2.5" hard drive platters with a capacity of 100 GB each in the third quarter of this year. Showa Denko is currently the only hard drive media manufacturer that has confirmed a capability to produce such devices. The 2.5" platters will be using perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) technology to achieve a density of 178 Gb/square inch. Showa Denko's customer includes hard drive manufacturers such as Toshiba, Western Digital as well as other smaller drive manufacturers that do not have the capacity to develop their own platters, such as Seagate and Hitachi GST.