10 and 20 gig Toshiba Drives

Per this CNet article, Toshiba announced 10gig and 20gig versions of it's 1.8" drives... the 5gig version being used in the current Apple iPod:Toshiba said it would begin shipping the 10GB drive, dubbed the MK1003GAL, in February and the 20GB unit, known as the MK2003GAH, in March. The company did not announce pricing for the new drives.

maybe when I finally get around to ordering an iPod I'll be able to get it with a bigger hd! :p

I'm not buying one until it's at least 20gig. 5 is not enough for anyone but the casual iTunes user - there's a lot of people with at least 10gigs of music, not to mention files they'd like to store on it (for backup in case of SME (sudden Mac Explosion)), and the fact that there are tons of mp3 players on the PC side that are 20gig, and one that's now 40. Without enough space, iPod's usless no matter how small, easy, cute.

People will always feel more is better. But 5 gigs useless?
40 gigs is sweet: But remember the tradeoff:

* Big dang form factor (stick THAT in your pocket!)
* Still USB (watch the clock as you grow old waiting on transfer).

so who's gonna be the first to get a new drive and hack it into their iPod?

-Pete

20 GB is just insane! If iPod comes out with a 20GB HD then all other players would be useless. If Apple can make 20GB work in the iPod then they should do it, I can see the selling point. iPod 4000 songs in your pocket. They could say it holds more data than wintel laptops ohhh ya! After we put 40Gb in iBook and TI book! Go APPLE!




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I will agree with the crowd here - I've been holding off on an iPod simply because 5GB isn't enough these days. I have a new iBook (well, the October edition...) and I'm looking at buying an external FireWire drive - it would be nice to kill 2 birds with 1 stone. I could keep my DiVX media and MP3s in one place (well, until I get enough green to buy a new iMac with DVD-R)

20 GB is just where the sweetspot begins...

Apple will go to 10 and 20 whenever the price is low enough to keep the iPod at $400. Hopefully that won't be too long.

i just got my ipod and i have alot of songs but i only put ones i want to lisen to on the road on the ipod, so im fine with 5 gigs, i mean most mp3 players are alot smaller, but still, its small and has alot of space, but new ipods will come out, low model will be 5gigs at about $200,10gigs will be medium model at $400, and 20gigs will be $600. So thats what i think, but still ill just switch the hard drives around and save money, or wait for a better ipod

20 GB iPod by March? That'd be sweet!.. Hopefully they will upgrade the bus and Firewire on both the new Macs and a new version of the iPod to handle FireWire II by then.