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Hard disk drives coming for mobile phones
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Cornice Inc. and Seagate Technology introduced early this week new
high-capacity tiny hard drives aimed at the mobile phone market as the 3GSM
Congress underway in
Seagate announced its ST1.3 series 12GB 1-inch drive with a 23 percent
smaller footprint than its current 1-inch hard drive. The new device has 50
percent more capacity and consumes 30 percent less power, the firm said.
Cornice introduced 8GGb and 10GB hard drives in its Cornice Dragon series
and noted that its 3GB Storage Element is already included in Samsung's new
SGH-1300 music smartphone.
"The increasing availability of more content creates an insatiable
demand for additional storage packed into a small device," said Cornice
president and CEO Camillo Martino in a statement. "Cornice expects that
greater than 10 percent of all cell phones will adopt a high capacity storage
device within five years."
Seagate said its new 12GB drive uses its perpendicular recording technology.
The 40-by-30-by-5mm drive also features an optional drop sensor that increases
operational shock resistance up to 2,000Gs. In perpendicular recording, drives
can store more than traditional parallel recording techniques by standing
charged particles on end.
In introducing its drives, Cornice noted that they have been designed
exclusively for consumer electronics devices. The Cornice drives feature a Drop
Safe solution in which the drive is able to sense it has been dropped enabling
the head to protect itself before the device strikes the ground. Cornice said
its new drives will be available this quarter.
Seagate said its new drives will be available in Q3 2006.
- W.
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