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IBM Develops Chip With 500,000-Song Capacity

Apr 11th, 2008 | By Elisabeth Lewin | Category: Computer Hardware, General, iPods & Portable Media Players

In a paper published in today’s issue of Science, a team at IBM’s research centre in San Jose, California, said they have developed a new type of digital storage which would enable a device such as an MP3 player to store about half a million songs - or 3,500 films - and cost far less [...]

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Samsung Intros 120GB iPod Hard Drive

Apr 25th, 2007 | By James Lewin | Category: General

Samsung has introduced a new “jumbo shrimp” hard drive, the 120 GB 1.8-inch SpinPoint N2. The tiny drive¬†brings the first 120GB capacity to portable handheld devices, which could lead to the highest-capacity iPods ever.
Specs:

The N2 spins at 3,600rpm or 4,200rpm
15-ms average seek
sub-1W power consumption

Production of the 1.8-drive begins in July.
via Engadget

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