Toshiba small form factor hard disk business : Toshiba Corporation, the industry leader in small form factor and high capacity hard disk drives (HDD), today announced that it would achieve cumulative production of 40 million 1.8-inch HDD on October 7th, 2006. Toshiba entered 1.8-inch HDD market in 2000, at that time concentrating on PC peripheral applications, and in 2002 pioneered penetration of the consumer electronics sector and new applications in personal mobile products. Since then Toshiba has consistently won the largest share in the market for this increasingly popular drive. The achievement of cumulative production of 40 million drives is the result of Toshiba’s proactive promotion of new markets.
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