Nickel-sized hard drive
A hard disk drive about the size of a nickel able to store about two or three gigs of data has been developed by Toshiba.
Some 0.85 inch diameter, it can be used to store music and video in mobile phones and other portable gadgets and, "is believed to be the world’s smallest hard disk drive," company spokeswoman Midori Suzuki is quoted as saying in an Associated Press story here.
A two-gigabyle hard disk drive can handle about 30 hours of music, but not movie-length video, and Toshiba plans to start taking orders by the summer of next year to start mass production as early as 2005, she said.
Pricing hasn’t been decided.
