Toshiba's 0.85 inch hard drive

[Fishie]

Toshiba showed off it's 0.85 inch hard drive. Sampling in summer of 2004 with mass production by autumn. 200,000-300,000/month. They will be 2 and 4 GBs. I wonder how much companies will charge for a drive that small in an mp3 player? I think it would be great to have that in a digital camera.

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0401/CES/toshibahdd01.jpg

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0401/CES/toshibahdd02.jpg

[Matt]

man alive.... that is awesome. so many possiblities. those should replace compact flash cards for sure.. about the same size. should revolutionize the portable audio market as well.

can't wait to see a 20GB drive that big.

[DeltaGuy]

Didn't Secure Digital replace Compact Flash in most devices?

[Todd The Kiwi]

[QUOTE=Fishie]Toshiba showed off it's 0.85 inch hard drive. Sampling in summer of 2004 with mass production by autumn. 200,000-300,000/month. They will be 2 and 4 GBs. I wonder how much companies will charge for a drive that small in an mp3 player? I think it would be great to have that in a digital camera.

how much for these little beasties ? megabucks i'll bet . i could do with 100000000000000 of these in my house or car or wherever nice one toshiba :D

[Heigar]

that is just freaking amazing ,would be great for digital cameras!

[chicubs]

I think its mainly ment for mp3 players....toshiba has a real nice hd mp3 out (only in japan :( )...not using this technology mind that. Just dont give it to apple so they can give us more craptastic mini ipods.