History (1990): Toshiba Into One-Inch 3.5-Inch HDD

Toshiba America Information Systems disk products division (Irvine, CA) announced the first in a series of one-inch high, 3.5-inch Winchester disk drives.

The new 106MB MK-1034FC drive uses 3.5W for read/write operations and features a power save mode that reduces power consumption to 0.5W. It combines a rotary-voice-coil motor at 3,414rpm with an average seek time of 16ms and a 64KB cache buffer and offers a PC/AT interface. It measures 1(H)x4(W)x5.75(0) inches and weighs 17.6 ounces. MTBF is 40,000 hours.

Evaluation samples of the MK-1034FC are available with production volume available April 1991.

Pricing is $465 in OEM quantities.

This article is an abstract of news published on the former paper version of Computer Data Storage Newsletter on issue ≠35, published on December 1990.

Note: Price is now $76,44 at PriceBlade.