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SAMSUNG prepares 0,85-inch hard drives, TOSHIBA plans to produce them

27.11.2004

By the end of the year, Toshiba plans to begin mass production of its 0,85-inch hard drives, however, the company has not yet finally decided on the storage capacity - whether these will be 2 or 3 Gbit drives.

Recall that 0,85-inch drives were presented by the company in December last year, and the start of mass production was planned for 2005. Devices are positioned for the same equipment as 1,8-inch HDDs: portable audio players, mobile phones.

Toshiba's competition in the market of miniature disks can be made by Samsung, which also announced plans to introduce its own devices of this standard size. R&D is currently underway in this area, so there is no information on the readiness of final products yet.

The opinion of analysts regarding the sector of miniature hard disks is interesting: according to IDC, cell phones of the future will have the ability to store up to 4 GB of data, where, of course, 0,85-inch disks may well act as a medium.

On the other hand, after Samsung introduced 8 Gbit NAND flash chips, the question of what is cheaper - to use HDD or flash in devices, may become irrelevant.

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