Hard drives smaller than an inch ...

[James]

The Register Said: CES With solid state memory reaching the gigabyte base line, Toshiba has unveiled a tiny hard disk that's smaller than an inch. The 0.8 inch hard drive - that's about the width and thickness of an MMC or SD card - will come in 2GB and 4GB sizes, spins at 3600 rpm, and will ship in volume this Fall.

 

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http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/34779.html

[Scream]

pretty neat ain't it, you heard about the new Hi-MD format. Holds up to 45hrs of music and can now hold data files.

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3378627.stm

 

also another link for that mini hdd

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3381997.stm

[James]

VERY nice indeed, thanks for the link

[LiquidEyes]

All these new storage media (USB memory sticks, external Firewire drives, etc etc) are driving down the prices of normal hard discs too.

 

e.g. for £50 you can get a 7200rpm 80Gig drive!

 

I was thinking of getting a better backup device than my shitty old Zip drive, but I might just get another hard disc for my regular backups, and use CD-Rs for occasional "off-site" backups.

[Jarve]

The rate of technology these days is beyond impressive, the prices are of a resonable amount too.

 

 

Won't be long before we have the mobile phone pc/tv....

 

 

 

Ultimate accesory.