World's smallest HDD from Toshiba.

[Schwarz]

Hey guys I'm new to this forum but since i'm the kinda guy always checking every day for new computer stuff then I think I can show you a bunch of things lol.

Take a look at this...
The image will speak for itself...
http://www.deviceforge.com/files/misc/toshiba-tinyhd.jpg

This 0.85 inch
(0.85 inch refering to the diameter of the magnetic disk)
hard drive from Toshiba can hold 2 to 4 GB ! of storage space and has a speed of 3600RPM.
You'll tell me what the heck im I going to do with a HDD like this.
Lets not think about your own computer but cell phones and digital cam corders and such.
Anyways if you think about it your watch could hold more data then your portable computer a few years back.

- Schwarz

[zachig]

WOW!!! :shock: That's what I call AMAZING!!! and just to think that it is all mechanical and moving parts and not a flash RAM Drive. :shock:

Absolutely incredible how technology advances!!!

[shanewu]

That's incredible. Not sure why they'd use that over flash but I'm interested to know.

[werty316]

I think mainly bragging rights is all its worth.

[Schwarz]

There you go werty :p
I can't think of a good usage for it...
Unless they make mini video cards mother boards and all that.
Then we could have mini PCs that we could fit in our pockets and bring to lans haha...
No seriously i dunno...

[ghidora]

That's incredible. Not sure why they'd use that over flash but I'm interested to know.

Maybe price. 4GB flash chips aren't cheap and for someone to put one in a stick/card to be usable, it'll cost us even more. Granted, these drive won't be cheap at first, but look how fast standard drive prices fall - a lot faster than flash. So, it may end up being cheaper to use one of these if the space is availible than to use flash.

This is just a guess at what a practical reason may be. Not to mention that there's the "cool" factor as well.

[Schwarz]

That's incredible. Not sure why they'd use that over flash but I'm interested to know.

Maybe price. 4GB flash chips aren't cheap and for someone to put one in a stick/card to be usable, it'll cost us even more. Granted, these drive won't be cheap at first, but look how fast standard drive prices fall - a lot faster than flash. So, it may end up being cheaper to use one of these if the space is availible than to use flash.

This is just a guess at what a practical reason may be. Not to mention that there's the "cool" factor as well.

Thats very well thought ghidora.

[Gray]

Cool Factor is the ony reason to make that that I can think of.
The best thing about solid state storage is that more and more people are making it and it is only going to get much cheaper.

Just think with Windows Vista how much ram is needed, SLI Nvidia boards with 2GB of ram on board, and thats this generation, there have already been boards with 1024Mb's on them. Compeating brands yada yada yada.

Not to mention. High Mega Pixal Cameras, MP3 players, cell phones Pdas, consol game storage sticks, voice recorders.
These are all places to sell Add on "retail ram" (dont forget all the ram already built in those devices.) Mass production makes it Cheap.

So I wonder why they would build such a device that has such limited propriatary application.

Unless they are going up the density and we have Real Small laptops on the way?

Gute Entdeckung-Herr Schwarzs.

[Schwarz]

Danke Grau
Well its not a big discovery but its pretty amasing.