Toshiba Storage Device Division has been recognised for innovation in hard disk drive technology as part of the Nikkei BP Technology Awards 2006.

Toshiba Storage Device Division has been recognised for innovation in hard disk drive technology as part of the Nikkei BP Technology Awards 2006. The company was announced as one of the two winners of the Electronics and Home Appliances category for its pioneering application of perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) within small form factor, mobile hard disk solutions. The Nikkei Technology Awards were established to promote Japan's technological development in the fields of electronics/home digital appliances, information and communications, machinery, construction, healthcare/biotechnology and ecology that will have a positive and far reaching impact on industry and society.

The awardees were selected from technologies developed throughout 2005.

Toshiba Storage Device Division was the first company in the storage industry to commercialise PMR and shipped the first commercially available drive incorporating this technology in May 2005.