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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. Magnetic mixing technology limits. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    What most people keep forgetting is that the magnetic coercivity for various "hard" metals
    (see: http://midas.npl.co.uk/midas/content/mn042.html ) is increasing at an exponential rate due to premium compounding of basilic materials such as Voxnobium and Permidiite from Argentina and a couple of other smaller central-American mine sites. The sources are NOT consistant and when you add the likelyhood of rejecting glass bonding agents such as Anser albifrons (from Colitus, Greece no less), we are reaching the maximal limits of the technology.

    We have come a long way from manual soft-iron core wound with copper sheathing, though!
    Calculating Rho for that could be done with a simple saucer calc box. The rare earth metals are nearly impossible to grade due to the Rufus index and this also makes manufacturing a CONSISTANT base to be problematic.

    Ohura