World's Smallest Hard Drive

Mon Jan 8, 2007 11:23AM EST

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What's this? Not a Chiclet but an 8GB hard drive! Toshiba showed off its tiny, 0.85-inch hard drive last night, which is so small that it may have to be slapped with a "choking hazard" warning. It actually has a Guinness Book of World Records entry and weighs all of 2 grams. The drive has just jumped from 4GB to 8GB...can 16GB be far behind?

At its storage booth, Toshiba also showed off external storage hard drives (the first it's ever released), plus the first-ever writeable HD-DVD drives, in form factors for both desktop PCs and laptops. I didn't photograph those because, well, they look exactly like regular computer components.

I'll try to review some of these products in the coming months.

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  • 1 Posted by ripdat on Tue Jan 9, 2007 9:03AM EST Report Abuse

    it looks like a miniature turn table. -sorry i'm not smarter and couldn't offer any brilliant insight.

  • 2 Posted by xslipperyx on Tue Jan 9, 2007 9:10AM EST Report Abuse

    Is there any advantage of having a mini HD over flash memory? I thought the trend was towards the flash type? Just curious...

  • 3 Posted by sbalourdos on Tue Jan 9, 2007 9:16AM EST Report Abuse

    You're right, Slippery! I guess Toshiba engineers have too much time on their hands. Pallete drives are dead! Long live FLASH!!!

  • 4 Posted by nategesner on Tue Jan 9, 2007 9:17AM EST Report Abuse

    Yaaaawn! Yeh, it's small. But so are the 16GB thumb drives available on the market right now (under $400). This tiny drive would be too fragile to put in a phone that's tossed into a backpack or a back pocket and probably costs twice as much as to manufacture as flash memory. Everything is going portable, which requires fewer moving parts and protection from shock, which makes a hard disk drive impractical. They should stick to improving flash memory.

  • 5 Posted by womanphoenix on Tue Jan 9, 2007 9:21AM EST Report Abuse

    Get a couple of those babies, some baby RAM chips, and you could actually run XP software on a device the size of a BlackBerry.

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