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Worlds smallest harddrive..
A2597
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Guinness record for world's smallest disk drive
Tuesday, March 16, 2004 Posted: 11:23 AM EST (1623 GMT)
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Toshiba is expected to sell the tiny drive later this year.
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.
Tuesday, March 16, 2004 Posted: 11:23 AM EST (1623 GMT)
[img]http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2004/TECH/ptech/03/16/toshiba.record.reut/story.toshiba.drive.cnn.jpg[/img]
Toshiba is expected to sell the tiny drive later this year.
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.
Comments
Any word on pricing? Or will these only be built into devices (like the drives Toshiba already makes for the iPod)? It would be nice to have an alternative to IBM's Microdrive...
Old news.
[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by A2597 [/i]
[B]will be used in products such as cell phones and digital camcorders.[/B][/QUOTE]
In fact this isn't best solution for mobile devices:
It has moving parts so it doesn't withstand harder shocks or vibrations.
Well, of course you don't throw or drop cell phones, but I think this is meant as changeable mass storage so it's possible to drop it when putting it to device or when taking out of it. (that's one way how microdrives are broken)
[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by E.T [/i]
[B]Well, of course you don't throw or drop cell phones[/B][/QUOTE]
Want to bet? The number of people I see dropping their cellphones... Most people consider them to be robust but replaceable little devices. In general, they are pretty robust because they have no moving parts and are designed for fairly heavy usage. But put a hard drive in one and it's all downhill from there. Unless you get that technology that one company invented that can detect sudden acceleration and park the heads within something like 0.1 seconds.