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Cheap New 1 Inch HDD Holds 1.5GB

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the here-we-go dept.

SlightlyMadman writes "Cornice, Inc. has unveiled a new alternative for small devices requiring large amounts of storage. With an expected OEM price of about $100, it blows the smaller microdrive out of the water (at least until this fall). The days of cramming bulky 2.5" disks into mp3 players may finally be over."

13 of 232 comments (clear)

  1. Cool� by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...a shuttle craft for my 3.5inch floppy Enterprise.

  2. Dad Gummit! by ackthpt · · Score: 5, Funny
    Why it seems only 3 years ago I saw them 300MB IBM Microdrives at a CES and marvelled at its compactness and possibilies. I already feel like a geezer when I describe (with misty eyes) my days changing RP04 packs (DEC 80 MB removable, that is, you took the pack of platters and spindle out and put a different one in.) It done be amazin. How long before a Video Ipod? (Or did I already miss it?)

    Fast forward to April 15, 2023

    "Whatchu got there, boy? Looks like a wristwatch stuck in each of your eyes."
    "Aw, gramps, it's a 3D-VR Relay, I'm in a meeting at work, talking to my girlfriend and watching The Matrix Gets Old, can I get back with you?"
    "Shee-yoot, I might be daid by then!"
    "That's ok, Gramps, I have your soul digitized and can carry on any conversation with you in Virtual Space, now."
    "You can fit my very essence into those things?"
    "Yeah, you only take up 3 terabytes."

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    A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
  3. Re:Don't forget, in Canada... by sogoodsofarsowhat · · Score: 2, Funny

    And thats what you GET for living in CANADA!!! BWHAHAHAHAHA (unprovoked attack on canada hehehe)

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    . I love the sound of burning women and screaming rubber....
  4. Old Geezer? by delphi125 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Obviously not old enough to remember the original microdrive (circa 1984).

  5. Re:Consider the alternative by AnonymousComrade · · Score: 5, Funny

    1GB is really close to the sweet spot for digital photos. Very few people will need any more than that on a vacation.

    640 kB should be enough for anyone. :-)

  6. It's not the size of the drive that counts ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    it's how you use it!

  7. A 1 inch 1.5gb hard drive.... by Blacklotuz · · Score: 4, Funny

    Porn, from concentrate...

  8. Re:The days of cramming 2.5" disks was over in 200 by Bingo+Foo · · Score: 5, Funny
    And seeing my HDD compared to a coin for scale really makes me wonder whats MTBF?

    You'd have to ask the treasury department to be sure, but I think it's about 20 years for quarters, slightly longer for dimes and nickels and slightly less for pennies.

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    taken! (by Davidleeroth) Thanks Bingo Foo!
  9. Re:size by sstory · · Score: 1, Funny

    Your name is Nintendork and you're calling me names?

  10. Re:Think twice... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Not as cute as this :)

  11. Re:Don't forget, in Canada... by Gulik · · Score: 2, Funny

    If that HD is packaged in an MP3 player we will have to pay a huge levy on that gigabyte.

    In corporatist Canada, blank media burns you.

    (Score: -1; Moldering meta-joke)

  12. fsck is kind of like fuck by rice_burners_suck · · Score: 2, Funny

    Soon, nanotechnology will make hard drives the size of the sharp point of a needle with the capacity of one hundred thousand million billion trillion terabytes a reality. Only you'll need to make a backup cuz you won't be able to find your hard drive... it'll blow away in the wind.

  13. Re:The days of cramming 2.5" disks was over in 200 by ReelOddeeo · · Score: 3, Funny

    Don't limit yourself to MP3 players. Think about what a embedded tiny 1.5 GB drive would do for [....]

    Think of what it could do for portable, easily concealed packet sniffers!

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    Those who would give up liberty in exchange for security and DRM should switch to Microsoft Palladium!