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Toshiba Develops 0.85'' Hard Disk
onebuttonmouse writes "Toshiba have set a new record for the world's smallest hard disk at a tiny 0.85". Surely this will have some great applications in mobile devices, although the article does not mention power consumption. It'd be great if this made it into the iPod like the 1.5" Toshiba drive that resides in the current models."
It's not how big it is, it's how you use it...
SAILING MISHAP
in such a small place...
God bless technology!
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Great so I can loose this sucker just like I keep loosing that tiny cell phone I had to buy. Or better yet they will prob combine the two and make the worlds smallest cell with a HD. So then I can loose both at the same time. How small do we need things, really. I thought women always say "size matters!" if so the geeks are going in the wrong direction.
100 of these crammed together. They could hold about 200G and only be about 5 times the size of a normal drive!
I sold my old iPod on eBay to buy a dellPod because I got sick of my iPod konking out on cross-country flights.
a REALLY small beowulf cluster of...oh nevermind....
You know, I think it would be kinda nifty to set up five or six of these micro drives in RAID 5 configuration. I mean, talk about a solid mini-application server for household use.
Life is not for the lazy.
Yeah, or maybe they'll finally realize that everyone wants RAID in their IPods! With smaller drives they can make it happen. How are you supposed to run a serious production IPod w/o some form of disk redundancy! I mean seriously now Apple, let's get w/ the program.
Now they need to make 'em edible, so that I can easily and REALLY securely get rid of all that kiddy pr0-err, MP3s that I have on my computer...:::looks around hastily, then runs away:::
Ack! no thanks....
I'll take my pocket full of 256 meg CF cards.
If I lose,smash,wash one, I lose 256Meg of storage and not much money or photos lost.
The last thing I want is to spend my weekend in disneyworld taking photos of my kids pissing on mickey, screaming anti-disney slogans and getting dragged off by the goofy police and lose every one of them due to media failure.
for holding divx files for me to watch on my Zaurus? yes! important things like digital photos? nope.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
computers may be small enough to fit in a single room.
Wowsers, just 0.85"! One-dimensional storage is teh FUTARE!!!1
Not to mention wireless offsite backup and hourly automated optical backups in case of viruses, user error, or environmental disasters. Apple is really lagging, they're almost dead, flapping around like a salmon that missed the waterfall and ended up on dry land.
Just telling me one dimension, 0.85", is useless. We live in a n-dimensional world. I forget what that n is, but last time I heard a nuclear physicist speak it was over 7. So tell me its the Length, Width, Height, Diameter, Radius or something useful.
/.'er does that make me? having to RTFA uck.
I had to RTFA to find out it was diameter, what kind of
Ripping an new rectum in the fabric of spacetime.
. . . my collection of midget porn.