Toshiba entered the mobile storage market

Toshiba - commonly known as a provider of products such as TVs, laptops and DVD players, has just begun to participate in the field of portable hard drives with its first product of 100-200GB capacity.

This is the largest capacity available for an external portable hard drive. Toshiba products are connected to the computer via USB 2.0 port, for the purpose of backing up data, documents, digital photos, videos . of users. It is known that other leading hard drive manufacturers, Seagate and Western Digital, only have products with the largest capacity of 160GB.

The 100GB model is sold by Toshiba for $ 130, while the price of the 200GB model is $ 230.

Toshiba, the world's fifth-largest hard drive maker, said it will soon upgrade its capacity to over 200GB. IDC industrial analyst John Rydning predicts that 250GB mobile hard drive models will appear later this year.

According to IDC, the number of mobile hard drives in 2008 may increase to 6 million devices, up 58% compared to 3.8 million devices sold in 2006.