Toshiba Unveils 80GB 'iPod drive' 375
sushant_bhatia_progr writes "The Register has an article about a new 80GB drive from Toshiba. Toshiba says it will ship an 80GB 1.8in hard drive in Q3 2005 - a year after it introduced the 60GB version that can currently to be found inside the iPod Photo. The 80GB HDD - model number MK8007GAH - comes in a 7.9 x 5.4 x 0.8cm casing. Toshiba will ship a 40GB version - model number MK4007GAL - that's just 0.5cm thick in the second quarter. It's lighter, too: 51g to the 80GB HDD's 62g. Toshiba's current 40GB and 60GB (model numbers MK4004GAH and MK6006GAH, respectively) 1.8in HDDs are 0.8cm thick, so the new drive should make for thinner mid-range iPods.
Both drives spin at 4200rpm, offer an average seek time of 15ms and operate across an Ultra DMA 100 interface. They can take 500G operating shock and 1500G non-operating shock."
Captain Obvious speaks - (Score:5, Funny)
*cues fog machine*
Re:Size Storage (Score:3, Funny)
I dunno, 4000 bytes isn't really that big these days...
500G operating shock (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Imagine... (Score:2, Funny)
Great now (Score:2, Funny)
Re: Imagine... (Score:3, Funny)
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
I was so excited until...... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I'd sooner see (Score:3, Funny)
2. The iPod gets 12 hours now. The iPod Photo gets 15. Whaddaya want? A micro-fusion-reactor?
3. Only in fantasyland, buddy. DRM is pretty much necessary to keep Apple from getting sued out of business by the RIAA. You don't want DRM? Start a lobby group and make it illegal.
4. It's a portable music player, not a home stereo. Remotes are available as part of the Bose SoundDock and there's a third-party IR remote available.
5. The device is compact...where the hell are you going to cram a digital I/O (TOSLink) port?
You may not have 80GB of music, but those of us with hundreds of gigs' worth are drooling over the idea of an 80GB iPod.
Re:Size Storage (Score:3, Funny)
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I dunno, 4000 bytes isn't really that big these days...
Actually, 40 harpibytes would be (40 * 1024) yottabytes, which is 49,517,601,571,415,210,995,964,968,960 bytes. That's pretty big, even by today's standards.
Re:I'd sooner see (Score:5, Funny)
YES
Re:Need 100GB+ (Score:4, Funny)
1200 x 55 x 60 is a little under 4 million seconds
x 160 KBps = 640 Gbits
= 80 Gbytes
It'll be tight though. You might have to drop some of your least-favourite tracks (with 1200 CDs, I'm sure there are some on there that you actually don't like, right?)
Re:Need 100GB+ (Score:2, Funny)
1200 Songs, ~10 Songs an album, ~3 Minutes a song is 600hours of music, you know what would actually useful, putting the 400 tracks you actually listen to onto a music player and turning on shuffle. It would certainly save you hitting "next track" so much.
Re:Imagine... (Score:2, Funny)
1. Profit
2. ?
3. Natalie Portman!
Re:Do some math... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:500G operating shock (Score:4, Funny)
Your head deformed as it hit the ice, spreading the impact out over time. Also, your brain (or what's left of it!) is cushioned by a surrounding layer of fluid.
Personally, I wear a helmet to protect my "money-maker"....
Ah! They learned their lesson. (Score:3, Funny)
We all remember the fit that Apple threw when they pre-announced Apple's order for the 60-gig. Seems like they're thinking things through this time.
Re:500G operating shock (Score:5, Funny)
That's one thing our sex ed class in high school taught us as well...
oh wait..
Perfect for the New Newtons! (Score:3, Funny)
[hint] Imagine how many HyperCard stacks 80GB can hold?
Re:I WANT TO PUT MY PEE PEE IN YOUR POO POO HOLE (Score:1, Funny)
Re:500G operating shock (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Size Storage (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Size Storage (Score:3, Funny)
Re:thin air (Score:5, Funny)
Audiophiles have plenty of other excuses for not buying iPods, most of them, as near as I can tell, made up out of thin air.
For those that don't know, thin air is a huge problem if you are trying to faithfully reproduce a sound. Thicker air carries and holds sound much better, with less distortion (especially in the upper ranges).
iPods, like most other advanced electronics are manfactured in what is called a "cleanroom environment", where normal air is stripped of all it's suspended particulates. This thinned out air is then included in the iPods when they are shipped are are one of the reasons it tends to attenuate the upper frequencies, leading to muffled highs.
Hope that clarifes things a bit.