Sometimes reporting that hard drives are going to get bigger feels a bit like noting that water will be remaining wet, but when Toshiba announces that its 1.8-inch hard drives will be seeing a bump to 80GB next year using a new “perpendicular bits” technology, that means we are duty-bound to note it, because those drives will be inside 2005’s iPods, among other things. But perhaps even more interesting is the fact that the new technology will allow Toshiba to produce a 40GB drive that uses just a single platter, meaning that next year’s 40GB iPods could be just as thin or thinner than the current 20GB slim models.
Toshiba to make 80GB 1.8-inch drives [MacCentral]
