Toshiba has launched a new top model of its 1.8″ harddrive series and according to the manufacturer MK1011GAH is the largest disk of its segment with its 100GB of storage. Not surprisingly its the perpendicular recording technology which has made this possible and the mass production of the harddrive is expected to begin in January 2007. The power consumption has also been optimized according to Toshiba with a specified value at 0.003W/GB.
“The new drive, the MK1011GAH, employs perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) technology and an improved error correction code to secure the highest areal density of any 1.8-inch HDD in the market, 240.8 megabits per square millimeter (155.3 gigabits per square inch).”
