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4GB stamp sized hard drive

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Pariah

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These have been announced for awhile from Toshiba, but I hadn't seen a picture of one yet. It's designed for cell phones and expected to available for sale later this year. One of these would be great in a USB2 keychain to have that much storage in that small a package. Pretty nice for an MP3 player as well.

Guinness record for world's smallest disk drive
 
Very nice. 🙂

It'll probably be pricey to begin with but hopefully it'll eventually come down in price.
 
Originally posted by: UlricT
USB keychain would be a bad idea considering the abuse any keychain would have to put up with.
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If they are designed for cell phones, they have been designed to take a certain amount of abuse. They will be turned on while in your phone. They won't by spinning while on a key chain which would make them far less damage prone even if handled more roughly.
 
If they are designed for cell phones, they have been designed to take a certain amount of abuse. They will be turned on while in your phone. They won't by spinning while on a key chain which would make them far less damage prone even if handled more roughly.
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The EPE required to make it "dishwasher safe" will surely cost more than the drive itself. By the time this becomes mass marketed, flash will be cheaper and more durable. The fact of having an actual hard disk with moving parts hanging from a keychain is cool. It would be the epitome of geekdome if it were SCSI.

Cheers!
 
What would be so difficult and expensive about putting a protective waterproof plastic casing around the drive? It certainly wouldn't just be bare with a key ring punched through it. It doesn't even have to be a key chain, that was just an example. Just make a reader for it like a compact flash reader, put a dirt cheap tiny plastic clamshell case around it, and that would be plenty.
 
Originally posted by: AIWGuru
Don't we already have something like this called "IBM microdrive"?
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Yup sure do.... and it's not much bigger than this one that was just annouced ans comes in a handy, univerally usable compact flash form factor --- which impresses me all the more.

So... I still call the Hitachi/IBM MicroDrive the real winner here given it's density, first to market in the 4gig space-much less the 1gig models, and it's compact flash form factor.
 
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