Guinness Record for Toshiba's Tiny Hard Disk Drive

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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Toshiba Corp said on Tuesday that Guinness World Records had certified its stamp-sized hard disk drives (HDDs) as the smallest in the world.

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 cellphones and digital camcorders.

Toshiba, whose 1.8-inch HDDs are used in Apple Computer Inc's hot-selling iPod digital music players, for example, aims to start producing the 0.85-inch HDDs by the end of 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.

Source (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&e=20&u=/nm/tech_japan_toshiba_record_dc)

I wouldn't mind having 4 GB in my watch!

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A little pic for the little HD:

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Something of interest...

Creative Nomad MuVo's Dirty Little Secret

Cheap MP3 player has valuable hard drive that's useful for much more than music.

If you own a Creative Nomad MuVo2 or Apple iPod mini, you might be surprised to know your digital audio player could be worth more dead than alive.

As you'll see tonight on "Tech Live," both players, priced $200 and $249, respectively, contain an easily removable Hitachi 4GB Microdrive that normally sells for a whopping $499.

Their bulk is your gain

Do some basic math, and you'll realize that owning a microdrive is a no-brainer for digital camera owners whose cameras can accept the microdrive format. Just buy the MuVo for $199, crack it open, and presto: 3,000 to 4,500 photos in their highest JPEG resolution from a 5 or 6 megapixel camera.

The microdrives work just like slightly larger Compact Flash drives, fitting inside various cameras, several PDAs, notebooks, and other digital media players. Digital music player manufacturers such as Apple and Creative buy the drives in bulk from the original manufacturer -- in this case, Hitachi -- at a steep discount. If you decide to break into your MP3 player, their discounts are passed along to you.

Read complete story here (http://www.techtv.com/news/scitech/story/0,24195,3640312,00.html).