Toshiba launches 1.8” hard disk drives for tablets

Toshiba has launched a new range of hard disk drive (HDD) memory products designed for use with the latest mobile computing devices, including tablet PCs, netbooks and laptops.

Three separate HDD models are to be made available from next month and will make up the Mkxx39GSLseries, with the different products offering 160GB, 200GB and 220GB respectively.

At just 1.8 inches in size, the new range of hard drives are reckoned to be more energy efficient and more robust than their 2.5 inch predecessors and therefore better suited to use with the increasing variety of mobile computing devices on the market.

Maciek Brzeski, vice president of mobile marketing at Toshiba’s storage device division, said:  “Designers of next-generation consumer electronics, tablets and mobile devices need disk drives that will stand up to the demands of day-to-day usage in a world increasingly defined by mobility and connectivity to all forms of content.

“These newest members of our 1.8” family are designed to meet those demands.”

Toshiba claims to be the world’s principal pioneer of 1.8 inch hard drives, having introduced the industry’s first back in 2000. The company also cites IDC figures showing that it accounted for more than 90 per cent of all the 1.8 inch hard drives sold worldwide during the third quarter of last year.

Like most of the world’s major consumer technology suppliers, Toshiba is increasingly turning its attention to the tablet PC sector and recently launched a new website designed to promote its up-coming but as-yet-unnamed 10.1 inch Android-operated slate device.

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