Worlds smallest hard drive

[BJ_M]

TOKYO, Japan (Reuters) -- Japan's Toshiba Corp said on Tuesday that Guinness World Records had certified its stamp-sized hard disk drives (HDDs) as the smallest in the world.

The electronics conglomerate's 0.85-inch HDDs, unveiled in January, have storage capacity of up to four gigabytes and will be used in products such as cell phones and digital camcorders.

Toshiba, whose 1.8-inch HDDs are used in Apple Computer Inc's hot-selling iPod digital music players, for example, aims to start producing the 0.85-inch HDDs by the end of 2004.

"Toshiba's innovation means that I could soon hold more information in my watch than I could on my desktop computer just a few years ago," said David Hawksett, science and technology editor at Guinness World Records.

[BJ_M]

how do you plug a IDE cable into it though ? :P

[indolikaa]

I wonder if I can increase my cell phone's performance by installing a couple of those in RAID 0 configuration?

[gmatov]

Hey, like one of radio personalities is always saying, make the damn phone work, then give me movie camera ability, and the like.

And, damn near every time he gets an argument, it is from a cell user who is fading in and out, or approaching a tunnel.

I need a phone that can access the internet with a "click 3 3 times to enter "f", click7 4 times for "s"?

Jesus, call home and ask the wife what the TV showed for the Daily Number.

I don't know what the capacity is on the card in my Motorola, I DO know that my Nextel service sucks, can't gret a call at my house unless I go out on the porch, and when I get 50 miles fro0m home, about Mercer, PA, the phone is just dead weight up to and including Erie, PA. 100 miles of dead air.

Don't buy Nextel. There,I said it.

Cheers,

George

[Craig Tucker]

Get a SE P900 George. handwriting recognition or virtual querty keyboard for entering data on the touch screen. No more multiple presses of numeric keys.

[lordsmurf]

If you sneeze while on the phone, will the motion crash the hard drive?

[The village idiot]

If you sneeze while on the phone, will the motion crash the hard drive?

Good question... but the mass is really small, so it might be OK.

[The village idiot]

Wonder if they will make digital cameras with raid to decrease the time between shots? Just think how small notebook computers could get, now all we need are folding or roll up displays.

[BJ_M]

roll up displays now exist ....

[Capmaster]

Maybe I'm missing something but these don't look any smaller than the IBM/Hitachi microdrives. Of course I haven't seen those next to a quarter either ....
By the way, a friend of a friend had spent a shitload of money and bought a whole stack (about a half-dozen) of the then-brand-new 340MB microdrives for his digicam on an upcoming dream trip to Mt. Kilamanjaro. He found out once he got there that none of them worked. He had violated the max. operating altitude spec. for the drive. DOH!