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60GB and 120GB 1.8'' Drives from Seagate

Monday August 14, 2006 9:18 am PDT by Arnold Kim
Seagate will be releasing 60GB and 120GB 1.8" hard drives later this year.

We did not have a drive for [the handheld video business] that will come in capacities of 60 and 120 GB, and so we will have one in the December quarter and we think that will be a nice little driver for us. We feel a whole lot better about things than Wall Street does right now.


60GB and 120GB drives of this form factor could be used in future iPod releases.
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Buschmaster
72 months ago
What's left to upgrade on the current iPod? Probably just, say, bluetooth.

That's way too much storage for most people, and though, it would be nice for some, it would probably be way out of mosts price range for an mp3 player.
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jayb2000
72 months ago
my iTunes library is ~54 GB

so 60GB drive is not good for my iPod. Between formatted capacity and beig able to use it as a drive, 120 would be great
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shadowmoses
72 months ago
120gb true iPod video now that would be awesome!!!!

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emotion
72 months ago



That's way too much storage for most people, and though, it would be nice for some, it would probably be way out of mosts price range for an mp3 player.


You're not thinking video, much larger drives are needed then.
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spicyapple
72 months ago
I'd rather see price reductions, or move to 1" drives and take over the iPod mini form factor. The current iPods are too big!
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MacRumoron
72 months ago
an ipod that has more space than my computer... cool :D
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BWhaler
72 months ago
So, to ask the stupid clarification question, the 1.8" drive is the size in the iPod?

Does Apple use the Seagate drives?
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Chundles
72 months ago
So, we now have 750GB 3.5" drives and 120GB 1.8" drives. Seems to me the current range-topping 200GB 2.5" drive (at 12.5mm thick) is a bit of a slacker - they need to be getting towards 300GB.

What's the biggest 1.0" drive getting around nowadays?

120GB would be deadset sweet for a portable media player, and for those audio nuts with all their stuff in Lossless.

Christmas could be a ripper, Papa iPod is dying on me and taking my computer with it when I plug it in. Time for a new one.
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Buschmaster
72 months ago

You're not thinking video, much larger drives are needed then.

No, I am. But I guess I have the entire collection of the Office, a few full movies, and thousands of songs and don't come close to even touching the 30GB, if I did I'd need another drive in this computer. Why have a larger drive in my iPod than my laptop?

If they make a "true video iPod" like everyone wants, I think they would continue to make the current one and the true video iPod would be a higher priced product.
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emotion
72 months ago

No, I am. But I guess I have the entire collection of the Office, a few full movies, and thousands of songs and don't come close to even touching the 30GB, if I did I'd need another drive in this computer. Why have a larger drive in my iPod than my laptop?



Laptop drives are bigger these days too. Just upgrade that too.
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