Credit Card sized 5GB HD to arrive late this year

An anonymous reader writes "PC World reports in this article: "The card actually has moveable parts inside its thin shell," says Bill Heil, vice president of StorCard. A spinning wheel made of Mylar is engaged when the card is inserted into a StorReader, a USB-connected drive or PC Card that reads and writes to the StorCard. The reader is expected to retail for under $100 and the cards for under $15 each, Heil says. The StorCard and StorReader are scheduled to become available in the second half of 2003."

Comments

Brings new meaning to

[yatest5]

filling up your credit card with hard disks...

Old Commercial, New Twist

[slide-rule]

Trip to the ballpark with teenage son: $25.
Trip to computer store for card reader: $100.
Trip to radio shack for odds-n-ends: $30.
Look on son's face when he cracks into the secret pr0n cache on your new credit card: Priceless.

and the RIAA levy....

[Craig Nagy]

will raise the price to $200?

Cause obviously this thing is going to hold my entire mp3 collection...I don't see any other use.

Re:size ..

[dizco]

Er, and you need a PC card reader to put the pc card in.. and a computer to put that in.. and some way to power the computer.. hell, this thing ain't that small. It barely fits in the back of a pickup.

Please parse the topic for me

[guacamolefoo]

"Credit Card sized 5GB HD to become late this year"

So...:

1. Is it coming late this year, or
2. Is it on target but is going to become late sometime later this year, or
3. Is it going through a transcendant, life-changing experience sometime during this year, or...

GF.

GF.