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Toshiba Develops 0.85'' Hard Disk

Posted by timothy on from the smaller-is-better dept.

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."

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  1. pfft... by focitrixilous+P · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's not how big it is, it's how you use it...

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  2. Why the iPod? Seriously by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It could benefit all hard drive based music players, not just the iPod.

    1. Re:Why the iPod? Seriously by grub · · Score: 5, Insightful


      2-3GB on a 0.85" drive isn't much compared to the 30GB+ on a 1.5" drive. That said I wish they'd put more money into developing high density solid state storage devices. 0.85" is cool but it's still a mechanical device with all the inherent problems.

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  3. A drop on the factual side by NeoThermic · · Score: 5, Insightful

    For those in the UK; 0.85 Inches is a nice small 2.159cm. Although I wonder at the capacity and the sheilding from magnetic interference its going to need to keep away from even small magnetic currents erasing the data...

    NeoThermic

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  4. So much porn... by scosol · · Score: 5, Funny

    in such a small place...

    God bless technology!

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  5. Size Matters? by fmlug.org · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  6. Imagine by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    100 of these crammed together. They could hold about 200G and only be about 5 times the size of a normal drive!

  7. Poor man's computer by King+Bo+Bo · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This is BIG news. It looks like cell phones will become the poor man's computer. How many billions of people live in China and India again? Over two billion.

  8. some day by khuber · · Score: 5, Funny

    computers may be small enough to fit in a single room.