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Toshiba builds 100GB iPod-sized Disk Drive

PC World reports that Toshiba has developed a 1.8-inch 100GB hard drive, suitable for use in portable music devices. Adding a 25% jump over current storage, the new drive is sized perfectly to fit into iPods.

Production should begin next month and the drive itself will be shown at the January Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The first 1.8" drive developed in 2000 could hold 2GB and cost $740. Today, you can buy an 80GB iPod for about $350.



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PC World reports that Toshiba has developed a 1.8-inch 100GB hard drive, suitable for use in portable music devices. Adding a 25% jump over...
 

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Billy

The jump from 80gb to 100gb is 20%
i did the math backwards to simply for some simple minded people.

December 06 2006 at 10:05 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
AV

wow... I had no idea TUAW readers were so bad at math.. must be all the movies and photo albums and FUN stuff they do.. don't have time to keep up in their math class. I bet this kind of thing would never happen in the pie-chart making PC forums...

Math Pedant, you clearly are not in fact concerned with minor details as a true pedant would be as 20/80 is in fact 1/4, not 4. I, myself, am rather pedantic in general and so could not let you go un-chided for that silliness.

And before anyone gets their Justin Long boxers in a knot, I'm only poking fun. No really harm intended.

December 05 2006 at 10:40 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
AV

Actually Billy...

the 20GB difference is a 25% increase over the current 80GB hard drives:

20GB / 80GB = 1/4 (ratio of difference in relation to current) also known as .25 or 25%

December 05 2006 at 9:30 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Allan Leedy

20/80 = 4.
So it's a 25% increase. A 20% increase would only get you to 96. 80 is the denominator, not 100. If you started with 100 and went to 80, you'd have a 20% decrease, not 25%. Otherwise, going from 100 to 0 would involve a 125% decrease, which is still not technically possible.

December 05 2006 at 8:46 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Billy

You mean 20% jump (100-80=20, there is 20% difference). But very awesome! I've always said my next iPod will be 100GB. It's about time I update from my 20GB 4th Gen. iPod. I hope it'll be ready by march when I get the extra birthday money.

December 05 2006 at 7:54 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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