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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  • 26 Posted by el_cid_117 on Thu Sep 3, 2009 3:54PM EDT Report Abuse

    This drive is totally ghei, especially when you can get 8GB of SD memory. Basically Toshiba designed a product that was to be obsolete right out of the box, regardless of how cool it looks. To cm2gj: Those thresholds you list far exceed the capabilities or durability of any product with only 8GB of storage. Sorry your wrist is limp...

  • 27 Posted by vtonezerotwo on Thu Sep 3, 2009 10:38PM EDT Report Abuse

    To answer the problem with going to flash memory is that it's still in a stage where the memory will deteriorate and you will lose fragments of data as well as disk space. and to el cid. they may be making something that will be obsolete right way now, but they are still working on improving it.

  • 28 Posted by mikewmarquez on Thu Sep 3, 2009 7:20PM EDT Report Abuse

    Are you forgetting about the Toshiba hard drives in ipods? Flash does not offer the performance of a hard drive which is why apple chose to go that route. Jar your ipod really hard and you'll see there is a safely mechanism inside the hard drive that will cause it to pause. This is the type of technlogy we need for mobile devices, just think if your cell phone had 8 gig of onboard storage that was fast and reliable. You would use that for better applications, a faster device, more data storage for phone books, and other data you might want to store. I'm sorry but I would kill to have a hard drive in my blackberry, when that happens, that's when you will start to see really powerful handheald devices,

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