News Fuji unveils 0.8in hard disk

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  1. GreatOldOne

    GreatOldOne Wannabe Martian

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    From the Reg:

    Japan's Fuji Electric this month revealed the latest development in the ongoing shrinkage of hard disks: the 2cm (0.8in) platter.

    The current standard in micro disks is the 2.5cm (1in) platter.

    Drives based on the platter are already in development, Fuji said, though commercial products are still some way off. Fuji expects them to be used in handheld devices like cellphones and PDAs, which have traditionally been drive-less products.

    Each platter is fractionally larger than 2cm and just 0.4mm thick. The magnetic medium Fuji is using provides a data density of 80Gb per square inch, allowing the disk to offer an unformatted capacity of 6GB.

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  2. Spaced_invader

    Spaced_invader What's a Dremel?

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    so wont be long until we'll be playing our divx's on our mobiles then
     
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  3. Atomic

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    Cool I could put my HDD in my mouse...
     
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  4. Spaced_invader

    Spaced_invader What's a Dremel?

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    think about the lenght of the cables it just wouldnt work too many packets lost
     
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  5. DaSuperFly

    DaSuperFly What's a Dremel?

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    What if the mouse used a firewire connection?
     
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  6. Atomic

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    Was more of a stuid idea rather than a serious comment. Would like to see 20GB mp3 players that are small enough to fit in peoples (NORMAL SIZED) pockets tho...
     
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  7. Spaced_invader

    Spaced_invader What's a Dremel?

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    what about a wireless hard drive??
     
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  8. Spaced_invader

    Spaced_invader What's a Dremel?

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    if you think about it todays stupid ideas are tomorows inventions
     
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  9. JADS

    JADS Et arma et verba vulnerant

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    Sheesh soon we will HDDs we can lose as well as mobiles ;)

    Still a new line of books
    "Where's the mobile?" and "Where's the HDD?"

    :)
     
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  10. Liquid K9

    Liquid K9 Human programmer.. heh

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    I cant wait until the day that your computer is completely contained within a keyboard, then a headset (the headset would be the only one with a monitor of course)

    I can *really* imagine this going into biometrics, Deus Ex stylee. imagine it.. you witness a murder and they can download your experience off your hard-drive (where they put the disk in to copy it, I'd rather not say :worried:)
     
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  11. BioSniper

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    Just one thing I want to say to that.. This was done years ago with the Amigas and multiple other units ;)
     
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  12. Liquid K9

    Liquid K9 Human programmer.. heh

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    ok. a GOOD pc contained within a keyboard :p
     
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