holy crap small hard drive !!!!!!

[seethreepo]

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/ptech/03/16/toshiba.record.reut/index.html

[Simp-Dawg]

sweet...bet they'll be pretty pricey though!

[greenone]

Damn...four gigs on a drive the size of a quarter? "No, that's not a recording device; that's my keychain".

[BobW]

Imagine a VW microbus full of these things hauling down Route 80 at 65 MPH.

If the bus carries 250,000 of these at 4 GB each, what is the comparative bandwith to a T1 data connection ?

[mgleason007]

Imagine a VW microbus full of these things hauling down Route 80 at 65 MPH.

If the bus carries 250,000 of these at 4 GB each, what is the comparative bandwith to a T1 data connection ?

Depends on how far it's going.  I know you were being crazy but you can't convert miles into kilobytes .

[Sean Gallemore]

the HD in the iPods is built by Toshiba.  I dunno why but that humors me.

[mterry]

stealth what?

[Elana]

I dunno, I'm only semi-impressed.  I wanna see some solid-state drives that hold that much stuff.  They're already tiny, and they're a lot safer than tiny hard drives with moving parts.   I'd trust a 2gb flash card in my camera over a 2gb microdrive any day.

[Elana]

Imagine a VW microbus full of these things hauling down Route 80 at 65 MPH.

If the bus carries 250,000 of these at 4 GB each, what is the comparative bandwith to a T1 data connection ?

Depends on how far it's going.  I know you were being crazy but you can't convert miles into kilobytes .

At 65mph carrying 1000Tb of data, you can travel 3.67x10^7 miles above 500kbps, which is about what a T1 does

[sickrick43]

I dunno, I'm only semi-impressed.  I wanna see some solid-state drives that hold that much stuff.  They're already tiny, and they're a lot safer than tiny hard drives with moving parts.   I'd trust a 2gb flash card in my camera over a 2gb microdrive any day.

Ditto...

Alot of people on the photo boards get suicidal when these microdrives die.  I mean, it's one thing to lose a concert that you can usually get from someone else, entirely another to blow a wedding or once in a lifetime event.

Elana - what kind of digicam do you shoot with?

Haven't seen the tech specs on toshiba's site regarding this drive.  And for those of us drooooling for a Fostex FR-2, it doesn't solve the 4-5GB available media limit that comprises the upper end of what's currently available.  I'm checking a couple of PCMCIA OEM's to see if one the the 2.8" 20/40GB Hitachi Travelstars' can be shoehorned onto an ATA CardBus card.

Rick

[joemango]

My company uses Compact Flash cards in our digital cameras to shoot photos for our magazines.  We've been relying on CF Microdrives for a while, but recently have moved over to solid state as it tends to be faster and has lower power demands.  We have had a couple of people get their microdrvies wet and had to send them out to data recovery services ($$$).  A wet CF card just needs to dry out.  Hell, I've run a flash card through a full wash cycle and had it come out working fine with all the data on it OK.

[George]

Awesome...at least its a step in the right direction regading size vs. disk size.

[Elana]

I dunno, I'm only semi-impressed.  I wanna see some solid-state drives that hold that much stuff.  They're already tiny, and they're a lot safer than tiny hard drives with moving parts.   I'd trust a 2gb flash card in my camera over a 2gb microdrive any day.

Ditto...

Alot of people on the photo boards get suicidal when these microdrives die.  I mean, it's one thing to lose a concert that you can usually get from someone else, entirely another to blow a wedding or once in a lifetime event.

Elana - what kind of digicam do you shoot with?

Haven't seen the tech specs on toshiba's site regarding this drive.  And for those of us drooooling for a Fostex FR-2, it doesn't solve the 4-5GB available media limit that comprises the upper end of what's currently available.  I'm checking a couple of PCMCIA OEM's to see if one the the 2.8" 20/40GB Hitachi Travelstars' can be shoehorned onto an ATA CardBus card.

Rick

I actually don't have a digicam at all :/  But if I did, I'd rather a 2gb flash card over a 2gb microdrive, that's for sure.

[mgleason007]

I actually don't have a digicam at all :/  But if I did, I'd rather a 2gb flash card over a 2gb microdrive, that's for sure.

Definitely.  I would be paranoid about reliabilty of one of those things.  Glad I have one that uses SD cards .