IVDR stands for Information Versatile Disk for Removable usage and there's a new consortium established by Canon, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Phoenix Technologies, Pioneer, Sanyo Electric, Sharp, FCI Japan, Mitsumi Electric, and JVC to promote it. The groups is piggybacking on work done by Sanyo about two years ago to solve the problem of hard disk Moore's Law - drive capacity is roughly doubling each year and consumers are getting left behind. IVDR disks don't differe much from 2.5" hard disk drives of the type commonly found in notebook computers, but the consortium has added a new connector, for easy removal of devices, and a protective drive case.

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