Toshiba's Smaller, Lighter Hard Drives

At 0.3" (.9 cm) thick and weighing 2.1 ounces, Toshiba's latest 1.8" 60 GB hard drives will allow for even thinner and lighter iPods and other digital accessories. These micro-marvels are reaching the critical form factor where they will fit into a pretty impressive cell phone.

Toshiba's perpendicular recording technology, which will dramatically increase disk platter density, is expected later this year.