Toshiba Unveils 80GB 'iPod drive'

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."

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Re:I'd sooner see

[Twirlip of the Mists]

i have toslink optical in/out on my mobo, my minidisc has toslink input, my discman has toslink output, my 2 dvd players (one is a 5 disc changer) has toslink output, my surround sound reciever has 4 toslink inputs, and i have a USB toslink soundcard that came with my minidisc recorder that i can put on my laptop. they exist and are useful

I was reading kinda quickly, so I obviously missed it. Which of those devices is a portable music player that you carry around with you and that, while you do, you listen to exclusively with headphones?

if you put it in the dock, you then have to carry the dock around, or worse yet, move it every time you want to listen to it on your stereo or have it connected to your computer

Buy a second one. They're cheap, like $40.

i looked in my discman, the toslink connector isn't much bigger

Toslink is obsolete. The state of the art optical jack is a combination mini headphone jack and optical jack.

i would have paid an extra $100 for an ipod or something else with a toslink

No, you wouldn't have. That's a lie and you know it. If you were willing to put up with a piece of crap like a "zen touch" (capital letters are your friends, really), then there's nothing that could have persuaded you to buy an iPod at any price.

Once again we see that some people have no taste.

Re:Need 100GB+

[Kufat]

Some things, such as cymbals, sound noticeably bad in 192 or 224 kbit AAC, even on the junk earphones included with the iPod. (Incidentally, I've also noticed that the same MP3 file will sound worse on an ipod than on a PC when listening with the same headphones.)