Stamp-size hard drives set record

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edited March 2004 in Science & Tech
Toshiba has created disk drives, holding up to 4 gigs, that have broken the Guiness Book record size.

[blockquote]The electronics conglomerate's 0.85-inch HDDs, unveiled in January, have storage capacity of up to four gigabytes and will be used in products such as cell phones and digital camcorders.[/blockquote]
[link=http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/ptech/03/16/toshiba.record.reut/index.html]Read more at CNN.com[/link]

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  • EyesOnlyEyesOnly Sweden New
    edited March 2004
    OMFG that's incredible. ;D
  • KingFishKingFish
    edited March 2004
    wow

    KingFish
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited March 2004
    "Toshiba's innovation means that I could soon hold more information in my watch than I could on my desktop computer just a few years ago," said David Hawksett, science and technology editor at Guinness World Records.
    I remember the day I upgraded my Conner 850MB drive to a 2.1GB WD. I couldn't imagine that I'd ever need more... :cool:
  • CycloniteCyclonite Tampa, Florida Icrontian
    edited March 2004
    Yeah. I remember when I went from a PC with 500 MB to a nice shiny new PC with a 6GB HDD (It took a lot of convicing my parents after a long time). I was ecstatic. I thought I'd never come close to using half of it. Boy, that changed. I've got a PC at home with 3 HDDs totalling 240 GB and I'm debating on whether to get another...
  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own way Naples, FL Icrontian
    edited March 2004
    Trekky8472 wrote:
    Yeah. I remember when I went from a PC with 500 MB to a nice shiny new PC with a 6GB HDD (It took a lot of convicing my parents after a long time). I was ecstatic. I thought I'd never come close to using half of it. Boy, that changed. I've got a PC at home with 3 HDDs totalling 240 GB and I'm debating on whether to get another...

    I remember thinking TWO 80 MB Hds was alot.... Times they do change.... :D Now my HD stable houses any of ten HDs, ranging from 40 to 80 GB each. I have four 80's, two 60's, and 4 40's right now in cold-swap, and about 10 others on hand to sell locally. My IDe test HD is a 2.1 GB, the ohter test for IDe functions HD is an 8.4 GB HD. The first is an OLD IBM, well pre-deathstar era, when IBM MFR'd them themselves. The second is a WD Caviar series, very old and venerable, squeaky clean as far as faults. Mom still runs an 8.4 GB WD Caviar that is also in perfect working order, lots of her archived stuff is on CD-ROMs or floppies.

    John D.
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited March 2004
    I can see where this thread is headed. :vimp:
  • Omega65Omega65 Philadelphia, Pa
    edited March 2004
    Hee Hee Hee ;D;D;D

    1st HD - 40MB $460 bucks shipped on a AMD 386-40mhz computer! (upgraded a AMD 286-20mhz!)
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited March 2004
    I was told I would never fill up my 400mb on my first computer, a Pentium 60Mhz.
  • 289Mustang289Mustang Husker Nation
    edited March 2004
    You guys were lucky, my first computer didn't even have a hard drive :(
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited March 2004
    My first computer didn't have any storage media at all! When I got a cassette recorder for it, I was in heaven!
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited March 2004
    And my first computer (the first one that I owned, that is) had a 9.1GB, 7200RPM IBM Ultrastar 68-pin SCSI II hard drive... :D
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