Toshiba has announced its newest line of 1.8-inch HDD, known as the industry first too, with low-insertion force (LIF) SATA connectors. Toshiba touts them as PMP-friendly, so I guess you won’t be able to get hold of them for your netbooks anywhere.

These super-slim drives are designed for use in media players, tablets and most anything else that can fit within electronic devices that might fit your pocket, with 160GB, 200GB and 220GB models being available. They’re said to surpass 2.5-inch drives in terms of vibration robustness, low power consumption, and quiet operation, and the whole lot also includes a 16MB buffer and requires just 0.35-watts to operate at low power idle which should be a good thing for compact electronic devices like tablets that suck out juices like no tomorrow, especially the dual core ones.

The whole package measures just 5- x 54- x 71mm, and while pricing information isn’t readily available, samples will be headed out to product manufacturers next month. So, will this be featured in some PMPs coming summer?

SOURCE via Businesswire