Toshiba to Introduce 60GB 1.8 inch Hard Drive

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS. I have 38GB of tunes. Way too close to the max 40GB the high end iPod holds. Bring this on. There have been two things I've been waiting on.

1. G5 PowerBook
2. 50GB iPod.


If they only bring out #2 this year I'm happy.

WOOT. First post!

WooooHooo!! That means the rest of the line will also increase in capacity, at the same/lower price level.

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Awesome! I hope there are improvements- hard to imagine any. Great news.

Infoworld reports that Toshiba is planning to launch a 60GB version of its 1.8" Hard Drives which are currently used in the Apple iPod.

The new 60GB drive should begin production in July or August and has already been ordered by Apple.

The (non Mini) iPod last saw a revision in September 2003, which brought the highest capacity iPod to 40GB.

Good news for iPod followers, like me - I'm an iPod owner myself, and I'm not ready to replace my iPod just yet...but I would like a reason to get mre people using iPods - this is a good one.

Infoworld reports that Toshiba is planning to launch a 60GB version of its 1.8" Hard Drives which are currently used in the Apple iPod.

The new 60GB drive should begin production in July or August and has already been ordered by Apple.

The (non Mini) iPod last saw a revision in September 2003, which brought the highest capacity iPod to 40GB.

Sounds great!

It would be nice to see these drives in some PC laptops -- even two of them! It would be nice to have the extra storage in a small form factor.

Sushi

60GB seems rather large for the vast majority of music libraries. It's hard to imagine that enough people have such huge collections to make it worthwhile producing.

That said, it may be that Apple could use that space for other things -- video? still pictures? Somethinge else entirely?

Hopefully now we'll have an iPod that can viably hold a few movies, as well as songs. While it's too much to hope that it can play them, too - it's still the ultimate way to take a film to a mate's house to watch :cool:

surely this now makes it obvious that the ipod is going to have some form of video capebility and do it properly!

like loneAzdgari said, this is very good news since it's gonna bring down the prices at the lower capasity models. a 40Gb iPod for the money a 20Gb costs now.... yummy! :)

I'm an owner of a G3 15Gber.. i'm very pleased, but the room is still not quite enough, since i've got about 40Gbs of music and now I'm also using it as a portable computer (have osx on it and mail, address book, safari etc synced between my own computer and the pod).

so bring on the 60Gb! Could it also be possible to save some space for something else in PBs if they had these smaller HDs? ...space for a G5 processor maybe?! ;DDD

Great news, but that still means I have to wait till Sept/Nov. for a new iPod...an eternity!!