Toshiba has announced two new 1.8-inch hard drive model, Toshiba MK8022GAA with 80GB capacity and Toshiba MK1626GCB with 160GB capacity. With the small size, both of them are designed for media players and UMPCs. The 160GB MK1626GCB will have to compete with Samsung’s recently announced 1.8-inch 160GB drive. Its the first Toshiba product to run on the new Consumer Electronics ATA (CE-ATA) interface. According to Toshiba, its power consumption is only 33% of their 100GB drive. The MK1626GCB features two 80GB platters (0.3 inches thick), 3,600 rpm speed, 52mbps transfer rate and 15ms seek time. While 80GB MK8022GAA is a 3600rpm drive with Parallel ATA interface and 66mbps transfer rate.

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