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1.8" USB Portable Hard Drive

Posted by timothy on from the lervely dept.

Jin-Wei Tioh writes "The folks at BlueSmoke take a look at Transcend's recently announced 1.8" USB 2.0 portable hard drive, the only one of its kind on the market. Roughly the size of a small stack of business cards, it is quite a bit smaller than existing 2.5" drives. It holds either 20GB or 40GB of data and is styled like an iPod."

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  1. Funny 404 pages by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Check out the 404 page for this site:

    http://www.bluesmoke.net/Graphics/Digits/trans.gif

    Pretty funny.

  2. Where the hell is my stuff? by thewldisntenuff · · Score: 5, Funny

    As hard drive/memory chip/etc devices get smaller and smaller, I wonder how people will be able to keep track of where the hell their (physical, not logical) memory is....

    I can see a new market now, not for data recovery, but for recover-the-data-device recovery....I'll make millions!

    -thewldisntenuff

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  3. Obligatory by sw155kn1f3 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well...

    You don't want to name your site bluesmoke.net and post a link to slashdot, don't you ;-)?

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  4. Re:Nice by Suburbanpride · · Score: 3, Funny

    I wonder if their server was running on these drives, beacuse it sure went down fast.

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  5. really? by IamLarryboy · · Score: 4, Funny

    "it is quite a bit smaller than existing 2.5" drives."

    Say about .7"?

    1. Re:really? by notanatheist · · Score: 2, Funny

      Great, America is getting hit by the "smaller is better bug". Next thing you know you'll have spam in your box advertising shrinkage.

  6. Re:"Styled like an iPod? by YrWrstNtmr · · Score: 5, Funny

    Slashdot Think Post

    Choose any two.

  7. Re:Good for DigVid cameras? by Twirlip+of+the+Mists · · Score: 1, Funny

    you could actually record in true digital mode instead of on tapes

    Yes, as opposed to all that fake digital stuff on a DV tape. God, I hate fake digital so much.

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  8. Ever notice... by aismail3 · · Score: 1, Funny

    that nerds are the only ones who are envious of men with small objects? ;)

  9. Re:obvious question... by Twirlip+of+the+Mists · · Score: 3, Funny

    And by the way, I've heard a rumor that you can hack it to play music, too. ;-)

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  10. Death by Apple Fashion by No_Weak_Heart · · Score: 2, Funny

    My casket is going to be "styled like an iPod."



    Enough already.