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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. Like the VST FireFly by SiMac · · Score: 5, Informative

    The VST FireFly was based on the 1.8" 5GB drive (the one that was in the original iPod). It was also extremely tiny; however, it was limited in capacity, and eventually discontinued.

  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. Not exactly first to market... by lemonylimey · · Score: 5, Informative

    Freecom have had an external hard drive based on a 1.8" unit for a couple of months now.

    Link

  5. Its very simple.. by t_allardyce · · Score: 5, Insightful

    1) Take a PDA with a reasonable CPU (one that could handle say low-res divx playing at a decent framerate)

    2) Include built in hard-drive

    3) Profit

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    1. Re:Its very simple.. by YrWrstNtmr · · Score: 5, Insightful

      2a) Devise new battery technology

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

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