Micro-drive for nano-ketai

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Hitachi to Introduce Tiny Drive
The New York Times, September 2, 2005
In the race to make ever-smaller disk drives for hand-held consumer appliances, Hitachi Ltd. will announce today that it has matched Seagate Technologies with what it says is the smallest drive on the market, a one-inch-diameter hard drive that holds eight gigabytes of data.
But Hitachi says its own version will be distinguished by a new technology that senses when the hard drive is being dropped, a feature that could be attractive in often-dropped cellphones....more...

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I love my 5GB microdrive... Holds lotsa photos, even RAW.

An iPod Mini with 8GB would be nice too.

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I love my 5GB microdrive... Holds lotsa photos, even RAW.
An iPod Mini with 8GB would be nice too.

My iPod has become a photo dump too.

Actually I bought a 5GB Creative Labs player and pulled out the drive for use in my DSLR. I have a bunch of flash cards, but with 5GB I can easily go a full weekend without having *any* worries about running out of space.

Indeed the quantum computing breakthrough is very cool. I really wonder how far along the US Military is with this sort of work... That sounds like something from a conspiracy nut I am sure, but at one point in the past they were about 20 years ahead on encryption/decryption algorithms and theory. No idea if it has remained that way or not though.