Toshiba Creates World's Smallest Hard Drive

too small for ipod use for many years still probably....

Wow pretty soon they'll be talking nm DRIVES, not just processors, huh?

IBM microdrives don't count? Or are they bigger?

It is not clear to me at the moment what purpose a hard drive of this size will serve when it is already out-gunned by smaller and soon to be cheaper flash drives.

No moving parts has to be better, so I think Apple should look to Flash for an ultralight iPOD.

Smaller drives equals smaller iPods. I know some might say, " How much smaller does it need to be?" Answer: Build it and they will come.

Cool, 10,000 songs in your ear canal! Hope it comes with a remote!

Let IBM finish their work on molecular semi-conductors and soon the Apple iPod will be capable of carrying "10,000 years of human knowledge in your pocket." :p

--Cless

Cool, in about 5 years the iPod will truly become a consumer (under $100) product ushering in a ..... oh yeah, by then, nobody will care.

I think they will have figured out a way to make the thing cheaper by then anyway. I say by next christmas.

Originally posted by tyson12zoll
IBM microdrives don't count? Or are they bigger?

I was wondering about this... aren't the IBM Microdrives actual hard drives, in a casing about the same size as a compact flash card? That's a lot smaller than 1".

Haven't heard much about them lately though... and never paid much attention to them when I used to see & hear talk about them.

I'm probably missing some very important point about why the Microdrives are in a different category :-) but this sprung to mind when I saw the "world's smallest hard drive" statement.

;)