IBM touts 14.1GB notebook drive
IBM will produce three new types of hard drives for laptops, one of which has an industry-leading storage capacity of 14.1GB.
IBM today announced three new hard
drives for notebook computers, including a 14.1GB drive, the largest ever developed.
The new drives help cement IBM's position as the technology and market share leader in the mobile storage market, analysts say.
"IBM has been the market share leader, with 40 percent of the market last year," said John Monroe of Dataquest. "And they are far and away the technology leader. Today they announced 10GB and 14GB mobile drives. To date, no other competitor is even shipping an 8GB mobile drive."
IBM mobile hard drives are featured in notebooks from Dell, Compaq, and Gateway, as well as IBM's own Thinkpad line of notebook computers.