Toshiba Expands Its Lineup of Market-Leading 1.8-Inch HDDs with PC and CE Solutions

Business Wire, Dec 13, 2007

About Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc. (TAIS)

Headquartered in Irvine, Calif., TAIS is comprised of four business units: Digital Products Division, Imaging Systems Division, Storage Device Division, and Telecommunication Systems Division. Together, these divisions provide mobile products and solutions, including industry leading portable computers; projectors; imaging products for the security, medical and manufacturing markets; storage products for automotive, computer and consumer electronics applications; and telephony equipment and associated applications.

TAIS provides sales, marketing and services for its wide range of information products in the United States and Latin America. TAIS is an independent operating company owned by Toshiba America, Inc., a subsidiary of Toshiba Corporation, which is a global leader in high technology and integrated manufacturing of electrical and electronic components, products and systems, as well as major infrastructure systems. Toshiba has more than 191,000 employees worldwide and annual sales of over U.S. $60 billion (FY2006). For more information on Toshiba's leading innovations, visit the company's Web site at www.toshiba.com.

(c) 2007 Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc. All product, service and company names are trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks of their respective owners. Information including without limitation product prices, specifications, availability, content of services, and contact information is subject to change without notice.

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One Gigabyte (1 GB) means 10(9) = 1,000,000,000 bytes using powers


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of 10. A computer operating system, however, reports storage


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capacity using powers of 2 for the definition of


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1 GB = 2(30) = 1,073,741,824 bytes, and therefore shows less


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storage capacity. Available storage capacity will also be less if


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the computer includes one or more pre-installed operating systems,


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pre-installed software applications or media content. Actual


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formatted capacity may vary.


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IDC data as of Q3 2007.