The iVDR promoting consortium is formed by 40 firms, including HDD makers such as Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Ltd and Fujitsu Ltd, in addition to I-O Data, Sanyo Electric Co, Ltd, Sharp Corp and Toyota Motor Corp.

Removable HDDs, which generally are used with a PC by inserting/extracting it like a cartridge, has already been commercialized as a PC peripheral, but it has not been attracting much attention. As it tends to be expensive considering the storage capacity, removable HDDs have not been watched with keen interest so far.

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