Showa Denko starts shipment of 2.5-inch 1-TB HD media, best in class

Showa Denko (“SDK”; TSE:4004) has started this month shipment of 2.5-inch hard disk (HD) media with storage capacity of 1 terabyte (TB) per disk, which feature the world's highest storage capacity for this size available on the market.

SDK's 2.5-inch 1 TB HD media have been adopted into Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation's hard disk drive (HDD), “MQ04ABF100,” for client. SDK has started supplying its 2.5-inch HD media for this application, using the ninth-generation perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) technology. In 2005, SDK became the world's first to manufacture and sell PMR-technology-based HD media.

As the world's largest independent HD media supplier with a market share of about 25%, SDK has been speedily launching highest-level-capacity HD media. HD media are key components of HDDs, significantly influencing their storage capacity. SDK will continue to strengthen its HD media business in accordance with the company's motto of “Best in Class.”

Source: Showa Denko K.K.