09-28-2004, 07:00 PM
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Toshiba Ramping Up 0.85 Inch Hard Drives
"Toshiba plans to begin commercial production of its 0.85-inch hard drive before the end of this year, the company says. The drive, which was first unveiled earlier this year, is about the same size as an SD (Secure Digital) memory card. Target applications include a new generation of smaller digital music players and other portable multimedia devices such as cellular telephones. Specifications of the first production drives were not available, but Toshiba's latest prototype drive can store up to 2GB of data and about one-tenth of an inch thick, a Toshiba spokesperson says...Looking ahead to the end of the decade, Toshiba says it expects 0.85-inch hard drives to boast capacities of between 15GB and 30GB. Larger 1.8-inch drives should be available in capacities between 160GB and 320GB while 2.5-inch drives could be available up to 640GB and 3.5-inch drives to 2TB."
Anyone else looking forward to the end of the decade? I sure am! :mrgreen:
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09-28-2004, 07:19 PM
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Sage
Join Date: Mar 2004
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Wow. Imagine that - 2 tb in your pocket. I could store every movie I've ever seen in DVD quality.... on my PPC.... 8O
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09-28-2004, 07:23 PM
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Sage
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Hmmm... the end of the decade huh? Well that's just about when Leno will be retiring and Conan O'Brien will be taking his place (seriously).
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09-28-2004, 08:03 PM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Apr 2004
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Originally Posted by bjornkeizers
Wow. Imagine that - 2 tb in your pocket. I could store every movie I've ever seen in DVD quality.... on my PPC.... 8O
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That's the 3.5 inch hard drives, the size you'd seen in a desktop. They say that the 0.85 inch ones, about the size you'd see in a microdrive, would be 15-30 GB.
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09-28-2004, 08:12 PM
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Mystic
Join Date: Feb 2004
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Re: Toshiba Ramping Up 0.85 Inch Hard Drives
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Originally Posted by Jason Dunn
...while 2.5-inch drives could be available up to 640GB and 3.5-inch drives to 2TB.
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I'd take a laptop with 2TB of storage. You could have a killer mobile video editing station with that drive.
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09-28-2004, 08:45 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Aug 2004
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the thing is...
we are seeing the emergence of this dichotomy between local storage like this, and greater bandwidth and speed for remote data and applications.
The combination, if we can provide the content and interfaces, should be spectacular.
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09-28-2004, 09:04 PM
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Executive Editor
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Re: Toshiba Ramping Up 0.85 Inch Hard Drives
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Originally Posted by dean_shan
I'd take a laptop with 2TB of storage. You could have a killer mobile video editing station with that drive.
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Laptops take 2.5" drives not 3.5", but really, 640 GB is more than enough for a killer video work station. ;-)
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09-28-2004, 09:25 PM
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Sage
Join Date: Mar 2004
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Originally Posted by ADBrown
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Originally Posted by bjornkeizers
Wow. Imagine that - 2 tb in your pocket. I could store every movie I've ever seen in DVD quality.... on my PPC.... 8O
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That's the 3.5 inch hard drives, the size you'd seen in a desktop. They say that the 0.85 inch ones, about the size you'd see in a microdrive, would be 15-30 GB. |
Whoops I must've misread that. You people should use the damn metric system - all those inches and feets are confusing the rest of the world. :-)
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09-28-2004, 09:50 PM
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5000+ Posts? I Should OWN This Site!
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We do... It's the source in this case that doesn't. 
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09-28-2004, 11:05 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Sep 2004
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What would you really do with 2TB on your Pocket PC? I couldn't imagine pulling that much data across a nasty slow USB connection 
In fact, the more I think about it, what I really want is a super fast, super reliable, ubiquitously available fast wireless connection to the safe/secure/backed up server where all that data is stored. If I lost 2TB worth of files because I left my PPC on the bus, I'd be up a creek.
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