We’ve heard some whisperings that Seagate has a 500GB hard drive of their own in the hopper, but Hitachi announced yesterday that they’re coming out with a 500GB 3.5-inch desktop PC hard drive. The other news is that they’ve shrunk their 1-inch MicroDrive so that it takes up one-fifth less space and more than doubled it’s capacity to 10GB (there’s also an 8GB version, too). If you want to connect the dots, Apple uses Hitachi’s 4GB 1-inch MicroDrive in the iPod mini, so it’s not entirely inconceivable that an 8GB or 10GB iPod mini could turn up sometime this year.
Originally posted by Peter Rojas from Engadget