Toshiba MK2060GSC Launched - Highest Capacity Automotive-Grade Hard Drive
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Cars are getting more tech-savvy every day, and now Toshiba has launched the largest hard drive offering designed to deal with the storage needs and rigors of automotive usage. The Toshiba MK2060GSC offers a 200GB capacity on a single platter with 4200 RPM speed and SATA interface.
While 200GB is nothing when it comes to "regular storage," the MK2060GSC doubles up on the highest capacity drive currently available. Toshiba also touts its quiet operation, shock resistance, reliability and the fact that it can handle altitude variations of -300 (984 feet) to 5,650 (18,537 feet) meters while operating and temps of -30 to 85°C.
Toshiba also announced the MK1060GSC, a 100GB model of the hard drive.
Toshiba pretty much owns this little slice of the hard drive market, shipping a worldwide total of 14 million automotive-grade hard drives to date. That's good for a 75% market share based on 2009 shipments. With cars increasingly offering entertainment and navigation systems there's a good chance Toshiba is handling the storage.
Availability
Toshiba's MKxxGSC series will be available in the third quarter of 2010 for industrial distribution and OEMs.