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60GB iPod Coming?

Posted by pudge on from the yes-please dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Toshiba today announced that it will offer a 60GB version of its 1.8-inch hard drive in the coming months and that Apple has already placed its order. Cindy Lee, deputy manager of Toshiba's hard disk drive division, said the drive will enter mass production during July or August. All three iPod models (15GB, 20GB, and 40GB) use Toshiba drives, while the iPod mini uses a 4GB 1-inch drive from Hitachi. Lee noted that Toshiba is currently shipping 350,000 of the 1.8-inch drives per month to Apple."

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  1. Re:Portable HD durability? by achurch · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I'm well able to read spec sheets, thank you very much. I'm more interested in real-world data. I might also note that "250G" isn't that big a number--even tapping a hard drive with a pencil generates forces on the order of 50G or so, IIRC.

    Gedanken experiment: drop an HD onto a hard surface from a height of 1m, it accelerates to ~4.4 m/s (d = at^2/2 => t = sqrt(2d/a), v = at = a*sqrt(2d/a) = sqrt(2da), where d=1m and a=9.8m/s^2). Assume it stops in 1msec, that's 4.4 m/s / 0.001 s = 4400 m/s^2 ~= 450G. So much for that drive, I suppose.

    Obviously, the material the drive gets dropped onto makes a significant difference in the amount of shock received, and one would also assume the iPod and similar players have some sort of shock absorber to reduce shocks to the drive in cases like this; without knowing the relevant physical characteristics, the numbers on the spec sheet are useless. So if you have some real-world data on the reliability of these drives, kindly provide it; if not, kindly shut up.

  2. Re:Too much space! by MasterSLATE · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    generally speaking, ipod users are the creative type. Many iPod users use their ipod to transport video as well, since many of them use iMovie to edit movies and whatnot.

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  3. Re:60GB... but anything else? by meringuoid · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    The problem with the iRiver iHP 1x0 players is that they lack DRM.

    That's not a bug, it's a feature. DRM is not a good thing.

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  4. Re:You mean? by radish · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Hey man good luck...this place is turning into an iPod fetishists club. Anyone who comes on and mentions other cheaper, better players gets the smack down. Oh well, their loss (literally).

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