History 2005: First Audio Player with 40GB Perpendicular Recording HDD

Many are those who would jump on board the bandwagon of Apple’s successful iPod market. Toshiba among them, with its new Gigabeat F41 audio player, expected at around $420 in the second half of the year.

It will be the first device of its kind with a hard disk drive that uses perpendicular magnetic recording, with the company’s own one-inch 40GB unit.

Toshiba’s audio player with PMR HDD

This article is an abstract of news published on issue 209 on June 2005 from the former paper version of Computer Data  Storage Newsletter.