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Toshiba a developpé un disque dur de 2 a 3 GB de la taille d'un timbre poste !
Ce disque pourait tres bien etre embarque dans des apareils portables tels que des telephones.

Source : Nikkei Electronics Asia


Toshiba's 'Postage Stamp-Sized' HDD to be Embedded in Mobile Devices

December 18, 2003 (TOKYO) --
Toshiba Corp has completed the development of a new HDD for media with a diameter of 0.85 inches (2.16cm).


Toshiba's HDD the size of a postage stamp

It plans to exhibit a prototype at the "2004 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES)" to be held in the US in January 2004.

According to Toshiba, this drive has a size, both vertically and horizontally, "almost equal to a postage stamp." However, the company is yet to decide on details of its product version, including outside dimensions and the transfer rate. But its capacity is expected to be between 2GB and 3GB. And its recording density is to be about the same as a current HDD.

Starting from the summer of 2004, Toshiba will ship samples of the drive for use in mobile phones. It is also studying an application for a mobile information terminal, such as a PDA or a mobile broadcasting device, as an embedded disk. However, at present, it has no plan to use it as an exchange medium such as a CompactFlash card.

If this HDD is used as a storage device for portable equipment, it should compete with flash EEPROM, a memory product Toshiba also produces. According to Toshiba's estimates, this hard disk's transfer rate is lower, but its power consumption is higher than a corresponding feature of flash EEPROM. Therefore, it will further offer new applications to avoid competition between the two.

As for a price to be set at the initial stage of production, Toshiba said, "We are afraid that it might be a little higher than is justified for boosting market penetration." Nonetheless, with volume efficiency, the disk's price can be lower than those of flash EEPROM products. Some media reported that Toshiba will set the price at 30,000 yen at the start of the HDD roll-out.
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Vu sur Generation MP3

Un disque dur de la taille d’un timbre poste !



Toshiba fait un nouveau pas en avant dans le tout miniaturisé avec l’annonce de la mise sur le marché prochaine d’un disque dur de 0,85 pouce (2,15 cm) de diamètre.

Avec cette innovation, la société Japonaise compte bien investir le marché du téléphone cellulaire, mais nous serions en droit de penser que cette technologie pourrait bientôt se greffer au baladeurs MP3 puisque la société a été la première à développer la technologie des disques durs actuels de 1,8 pouce que l’on retrouve notamment dans les baladeurs iPod d’Apple. Pour le moment, avec ce nouveau disque dur de très petite taille Toshiba prévoit offrir des capacités de l’ordre de 2 et 4GB.
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