Cornice Wows the Crowd With a 12GB Mobile Hard Drive

[Darius Wey]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.corniceco.com/news/080706.html' target='_blank'>http://www.corniceco.com/news/080706.html</a><br /><br /></div><i>"Cornice Inc. – an innovator in consumer storage solutions - today announced the 5th generation of small form factor hard drives. This new offering adds a 12 gigabyte (GB) capacity point to the existing one inch Dragon product line which has already made a name for itself as an ultra thin, high capacity, durable storage solution designed for consumer electronics OEMs. It will allow OEMs to offer thinner and higher-capacity consumer electronics (CE) devices while featuring industry-leading robustness, durability, and low power requirements for everyday consumer use. Mobile phones, portable media players, gaming devices and personal storage devices will be able to store more information than ever before."</i><br /><br /><img src="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/images/web/2003/wey-20060811-cornice12gb.jpg" /><br /><br />Cornice's latest 12GB one-inch mobile drive is available at just $85 a pop. You know, if there were manufacturers out there willing to include one of these in a PDA, that extra $85 is something I (and I'm sure many others) would be willing to swallow. Hello? HTC, HP, Dell? Are you reading this? ;)

[robshobs]

I would do it in a heartbeat. I've started to enjoy having music on my PPC and playing it through my car and headset but I'm finding that a 2GB SD card doesn't really hold that many songs.

Rob

[beowolf]

Should be noted that price is based on volume of 10k

"Price And Availability
The Dragon Series drive is available in volume quantities in Q3. List price is $85 per unit in quantities of 10,000 per year. Email Cornice’s sales staff at [email protected] or call (303) 651-7291.."

[Nurhisham Hussein]

I would do it in a heartbeat. I've started to enjoy having music on my PPC and playing it through my car and headset but I'm finding that a 2GB SD card doesn't really hold that many songs.

My sentiments exactly - in my case its movies. I've got an 8GB microdrive (ah...the joys of having a CF slot) in mine and it's almost always nearly full.

[tnelson2000]

In the olden days manufactures would need to multiply a component cost 4 times in order to make a profit. If this still holds true, this would add $300.00 to the retail price. Does anyone know what the normal multiplier is today??

[bnycastro]

would today's battery [or power] technology be able to juice up a device with this hdd on [plus the usual wireless goodies like wifi and bt and maybe even cellular wireless like gsm/umts/edge]? if so put in on the next generation of devices! if not, then i think battery technology should catch up.

[Darius Wey]

Should be noted that price is based on volume of 10k

Right. Don't forget, though, that the target market is ODMs/OEMs, where such a high volume purchase is typical. It's the manufacturers that pop these drives into the devices, not the end-users.

[Darius Wey]

would today's battery [or power] technology be able to juice up a device with this hdd on [plus the usual wireless goodies like wifi and bt and maybe even cellular wireless like gsm/umts/edge]? if so put in on the next generation of devices! if not, then i think battery technology should catch up.

Yes, battery technology has a long way to go. The power and complexity of devices has really boomed over the past few years, yet batteries have only received marginal improvements. Methinks it's time to divert R&amp;D resources elsewhere for a while. ;)

[MkH]

I too enjoy my 8GB HDD and can pop it out and put in my 5GB HDD or any other Type I/II CF device. I'm looking forward to getting my next CF HDD. I also enjoy the dual slots. I can stick in my SD card from my camera, or anyone elses, and copy the pictures to my CF HDD. I just hope in the next generation of PPC's that they don't build the HDD into the device, but instead, keep providing the card slot so I can upgrade to new devices as I choose.

[bnycastro]

sadly i think dual slot ppc's are a dying breed :( but it would be nice to have dual slots even if it is 2 SDIOs or 1 SDIO and 1 miniSD, if they do decide to have dual slots they should atleast have one with the most number of accessories and capacity [like CF or SDIO i'd go with SDIO simply because it is smaller so the device will not be so big and i think SDIO will eat up less power], the hp hw65xx series had dual slots but it came out at a time when wm5 was announced and still had wm2003se on it.

[salem]

While 8GB SD card is coming, it must be harder for Cornice to push this technology.