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Mini-iPod Mystery Drive Unveiled?
squiggleslash writes "One of the aspects of the '2G mini-iPod' rumour that's so far made it unlikely is the lack of a tiny, cheap, 2G, drive. Well, today Cornice has announced a 2G hard drive (PDF, 100k) that fits the bill. It's available for about $70 in lots of 100,000. The Mac Rumour sites are going faily nuts over this for obvious reasons. The reason the drive is so cheap is that it contains virtually no driver electronics, there's not even a memory buffer - this is the equivalent of a 1980's RLL or MFM drive. At $70 it seems unlikely that the mini-iPod, assuming it's announced tomorrow, will be under $100, but on the other hand the original iPod sold for the same price as the harddrive inside it. Here's hoping..."
just write it into the firmware, the driver is just a magnetic memory array, DUH, i'll be buying a $70 ipod thanks very much
i'm assuming that you would be in a _presurized_ airplain, so it should work fine...
Go on, be afraid. Encourage the terrorists
In a pressurized cabin probably pretty good.
Airplane cabins are pressurized.
An airplane that flies at 30k feet usually has a pressurized cabin.
I've never dropped MY iPod....
Agreed, but it is most often associated with raw speed, rather than transistor capacity. I am not saying it is right, I am just stating the way it is.
I hate sigs.