Japanese Showa Denko (SDK) has started shipments of 2.5-inch hard disk (HD) media with storage capacity of 1 terabyte (TB) per disk, the world's highest storage capacity for this size.
SDK's 2.5-inch 1 TB HD media have been adopted into Toshiba's MQ04ABF100 hard disk drive. SDK has started supplying its 2.5-inch HD media for this application, using the ninth-generation perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) technology.
SD Kis the world's largest HD media supplier with a market share of about 25%.
|
2.5-inch |
3.5-inch |
| 1 |
80GB |
160GB |
| 2 |
120GB |
250GB |
| 3 |
160GB |
334GB |
| 4 |
250GB |
500GB |
| 5 |
334GB |
750GB |
| 6 |
500GB |
1TB |
| 7 |
670GB |
1.1～1.3TB |
| 8 |
750GB |
1.3～1.5TB |
| 9 |
1TB |
1.5～1.8TB* |
*To be launched in early 2018