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02/17/2007

World's Smallest Hard Drive

Measuing only 0.85-inches in diameter, this new hard drive from Toshiba opens up new possibilites in mobile storage. Slightly larger than a postage stamp, you could be seeing this technology in cell phones, PDAs, digital cameras, and more. (Thanks, Jackson)

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Posted at 02/17/2007 5:58pm by lawrman
capacity?
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Posted at 02/17/2007 6:04pm by Gadget Venue dot com » Blog Archive » Ultra Small Hard drive
[...] Storage space is increasing and the space it requires is shrinking. This new hard drive from Toshiba is just 0.85 inches in diameter. As can be seen in the picture above, it is small and approaching the size of an SD memory card. With a hard drive this size, it opens up more possibilities to put a small drive in to small devices such as PDA’s, mobile phones and cameras. We do not know yet the speed of the drive or the read and write speeds. However, just looking at the drive shows how technology has increased. Via: TechEBlog [...]
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Posted at 02/17/2007 6:28pm by Ben
What he said
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Posted at 02/17/2007 6:31pm by Chris
Yer, whats the storage size??? the worlds smallest hdd at 1k :-D
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Posted at 02/17/2007 6:40pm by Ishi
Toshiba's website states that they will be 2-4 gigs initially. Seems like they're trying to impose on a market dominated by flash memory.
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Posted at 02/17/2007 6:53pm by Fred
read the Text in the back ground first Pic 4gb and 8gb
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Posted at 02/17/2007 7:05pm by Patrick
How will it handle being thrown around? My cellphone is dropped often enough that I'd be worried about making the wrong part in that go in the wrong direction.
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Posted at 02/17/2007 8:35pm by tatoo
That's tiny.
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Posted at 02/17/2007 9:36pm by Joe Tech » Worlds Smallest Hard Drive (photo)
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Posted at 02/18/2007 6:49pm by loppydisk
i would rather have flash memory. there no move parts that can screw up.
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