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4GB HD in Under an Inch
werwerf writes "In need of hard disk space but not much physical space? Toshiba is developing a sub inch HD capable of holding from 2 to 4Gb.
Seems that future digicams won't need a compact flash anymore!" They expect to be in mass production by the fall. Also, News.com is reporting that Hitachi's 1-inch 4GB drive is in Apple's new iPod mini.
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On a side note:
The 'K' in KDE stands for Krap.
They measure it next to a quarter. Nothing wrong with that. But its obvious, from the make of the quarter, that this thing has been out since AT LEAST 1999, because they're using an ancient quarter with an eagle tails side. They should at least use a quarter that's in circulation, not an antique collector's item. This must be a dupe blurb from 1999.
The Braying and Neighing of Barnyard Animals Follows.
werwerf really needs to see those penis enhancement ads...
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For example, here's a news story:
Toshiba are developing disk drives with a capacity greater than 100Gb whose size is under 1cm.
It's not true yet but it soon will be. And remember, you read it here first folks.
BTW I can generate these stories on demand. Just choose a manufacturer, disk capacity and physical size and I'll write up the story for you. Just think: endless stories about new hard drives before they've been reported anywhere in the regular news sources. Before the companies themselves have even made the press releases.
PS I can do the same for CPU speeds too. I'm working on stories about RAM too but that's a bit harder.
Doesn't it make you feel good to know that our freedoms are protected by politicans, lawyers and journalists.
Why bother with this "under an inch" stuff??
I got an email this afternoon promising to add "3+ inches" or my money back!!
What? Does Toshiba think I'm a total tard or something???
I'd rather be a conservative nutjob than a liberal with no nuts and no job.
The best thing about this hard drive is the revolutionary new method it uses to cool itself. Previously the main problem with using really small hard drives was that they used to get too hot and overheat.
The beauty of this drive is that it uses an algorithm to arrange the stored data in the configuration with the maximum order and minimum entropy. As entropy always increases (The 2nd law of thermodynamics) creating all this order takes power which can be taken from the heat given off by the drive.
Strangely this effect can be made to work in reverse which means that the processor in future computers could be a net power emitter. In terms of entropy computing will often put out more energy than you put in as you are increasing the entropy. At the moment this power (and more) is wasted due to inefficient transistors. However on slow processors such as the XScale the transistors can be made to superconduct meaning that they are extremely efficint and so the processor generates a small amount of power. This should help the next generation of laptops.
All that glitters has a high refractive index.
"...the Microdrive survived."
If they only built the WTC as strong as a microdrive...
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