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Guinness's World's Smallest Hard Drive Record

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the well-isn't-that-tiny dept.

ketbra writes "CNN reports that Toshiba has received the Guinness World record for the smallest disk drive for their new 0.85-inch HDD. (Covered on Slashdot a while back) The technology editor from Guiness made the comment that "Toshiba's innovation means that I could soon hold more information in my watch than I could on my desktop computer just a few years ago". "

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  1. At last.... by Kenja · · Score: 4, Funny

    At last, a hard drive thats also a suppository. Just what we need after a few too many rounds of Guinness.

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  2. You know you're a geek if... by Austerity+Empowers · · Score: 4, Funny

    You look at the picture and say "Damn, that's a big quarter."

    1. Re:You know you're a geek if... by sepluv · · Score: 4, Funny
      Glad I'm not the only one.

      As I'm in the UK, I thought "they have very big coins in the US don't they?"

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    2. Re:You know you're a geek if... by Mikkeles · · Score: 3, Funny

      In Canada, they're even larger:^)

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  3. Huh? Where's it go? by basil+montreal · · Score: 5, Funny

    The bigger the inside, the smaller the outside. I've already lost 2 hard drives this way... When will they stop?? Is it too much to ask for something at least one cubic foot?

  4. Adorable by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is it strange to think that hard drive is cute ?

    Not sure why, but it just seems adorable in a little puppy dog kind of way.

  5. BSOD by Mr.+Certainly · · Score: 3, Funny

    What will we do when our watches have a BSOD?

    1. Re:BSOD by forkazoo · · Score: 3, Funny

      Naturally, we'll have to press Inidlo-Start-Mode to reboot it.

  6. So who will be the first....... by MrIrwin · · Score: 4, Funny

    To set the record for how many you can eat in a minute using a cocktail stick?

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  7. What a let down... by MalaclypseTheYounger · · Score: 4, Funny

    Was anyone else supremely disappointed to see the word 'Guinness' (possibly mispelled) and find that the article was not about beer, with this being the day before St. Patty's day and all?

    (Offtopic +1, Beer)

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  8. Re:Guiness has no idea.... by HD+Webdev · · Score: 5, Funny

    Smallest market share?

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  9. Smallest Drive by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Am I the only person that immediately thought, "Wow, 1 bit!".

    1. Re:Smallest Drive by damien_kane · · Score: 5, Funny

      "Wow, 1 bit!"

      Being about the size of a quarter, wouldn't it be 2 bits?

    2. Re:Smallest Drive by Chris+Burke · · Score: 4, Funny

      Being about the size of a quarter, wouldn't it be 2 bits?

      Which is what you need to encode all possibilites of getting a shave and/or haircut, coincidentally enough.

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  10. Re:YES by wviperw · · Score: 3, Funny

    In the not too far future... [man looks down at watch] "What time is it Pamela?"

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  11. great.. by Anubis333 · · Score: 3, Funny

    One more thing to lose. I can't wait for the day when I need tweasers and a magnifying glass to replace a HD.

    1. Re:great.. by Blublu · · Score: 3, Funny

      Do you realize what you just posted?

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  12. Re:Odd by tanguyr · · Score: 4, Funny

    tomorrow they'll put 16 gb drives *inside* quarters.

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  13. The next wave is comming by Stevyn · · Score: 3, Funny

    Thousands of geeks applied to Guinness for creating the smallest linux distro. At the end of the day, only 3 were left standing.

  14. That's nothing... by fmaxwell · · Score: 4, Funny

    The first hard drive I ever bought was only 5 megabytes (no, not gigabytes). That's way smaller than the one in the article.

  15. A Day Early? by ackthpt · · Score: 5, Funny
    Nearly everyone knows that St. Patrick's Day is the 17th, and a day many people tip a pint of Guinness in tribute, in a pub, for which (ta-da) the Guinness Book or World Records was created to settle bets and disagreements.

    Consider two geeks in a pub (yeah, it's a stretch, usually one pint and they're under the table babbling about some OS or Kirk&Spok or making Monty Python references before passing out, ..):

    Geek 1: "So then I visualized a tiny Beowulf cluster with a slew of IBM microdrives, the smallest drives in the world and it was..."
    Geek 2: "Whoa, Cowboy, Toshiba has the smallest hard drive in the world."
    Geek 1: "No, it's IBM, you're wrong romulan breath!"
    Geek 2: "NOT! It's Toshiba!"
    Barmaid: "Hold on boys, I'll get the book to settle this."
    Geek 1: "Awe crap, OK, so it's Toshiba!"
    Geek 2: "Facial burns on you!"
    Geek 1: "So I filled out a request for the parts."
    Geek 2: "What did purchasing say?"
    Geek 1: "They said they couldn't understand it because I filled it out in spanish."
    Geek 2: "Ah ha! They didn't expect the spanish requisisition!"
    Barmaid throws the book at them.

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  16. Now what we need are camera watches. by demonic-halo · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yes,

    We can all be super spies. With gigs of data in a watch, we can sneak into foreign embassies and video tape almost everything in sight.

  17. Guinness has been duped! by tmhsiao · · Score: 3, Funny

    Everyone in the industry knows that Toshiba hasn't made small hard drives, they've bred huge people

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  18. Quarter storage capacity by odie_q · · Score: 3, Funny

    I believe the storage capacity of a standard coin is 1 bit, heads or tails. Some coins can also be placed on their edge, producing a third result. This is however considered out of spec, and will generally stabilize to one of the two defined states.

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  19. Slashdot "one upping" Mad libs-- by seibed · · Score: 3, Funny

    the competition to see who had the earliest/smallest bit of technology:

    "I had a [sinclair, 128k mac, apple, amiga] with a [subtract one unit from previous post]k hard drive, even after I doubled it in size with [crappy software] I wish I still had it, I'd set it up to run a [web server, distributed computing ap] but for now I guess I will have to be satisfied with running it in emulation mode with my [DR-DOS, OS2, BeOS, DOS 3.1] box!

  20. I plan on... by enrico_suave · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm going to fill up the world's tiniest drive with really really small thumbnail sized pr0n!

    e.

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