Seagate is making ultrasmall storage

Liviu_5 · 06-07-2006, 01:48 PM

Hi,

Just now on CNBC the CEO of Seagate demoing a ultrasmall hd of 60 Gb and a pocket drive of 8 Gb. It seems that the trend to miniaturization is still going strong. I am looking forward to cheap mobile storage measured in Gb.

Liviu

Alexander Turcic · 06-07-2006, 02:03 PM

Meanwhile Toshiba is introducing the 200GB 2.5" HDD, perfect size for my notebook

Seagate must fight hard to win the future market for mobile storage as Flash is getting cheaper and bigger as well.

Liviu_5 · 06-07-2006, 02:15 PM

Hi,

That 60 Gb drive looked so small (1.8 in), like a flash card. Looking at how even with a 1Gb storage card for Mokia, I still juggle books, have to zip the text ones and so on..., I am really looking forward to massive increased mobile storage.

I found a link http://www.seagate.com/cda/newsinfo/...1,3198,00.html

Liviu

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alexander Turcic

Meanwhile Toshiba is introducing the 200GB 2.5" HDD, perfect size for my notebook

Seagate must fight hard to win the future market for mobile storage as Flash is getting cheaper and bigger as well.

Snappy! · 06-07-2006, 09:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Liviu_5

Hi,

That 60 Gb drive looked so small (1.8 in), like a flash card. Looking at how even with a 1Gb storage card for Mokia, I still juggle books, have to zip the text ones and so on..., I am really looking forward to massive increased mobile storage.

I found a link http://www.seagate.com/cda/newsinfo/...1,3198,00.html

Liviu

Actually part of the problem with text file is that it is not stored efficiently on the harddisk. Well, its not really the problem with text file but the disk format/structure itself. If on-the-fly compression can be done seamlessly (heard its getting done in some variant of OpenZaurus), text files will take up much lesser spaces.

06-07-2006, 01:48 PM	#1
Liviu_5 Books and more books Posts: 917 Karma: 69499 Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: White Plains, NY, USA Device: Nook Color, Itouch, Nokia770, Sony 650, Sony 700(dead), Ebk(given)	Seagate is making ultrasmall storage Hi, Just now on CNBC the CEO of Seagate demoing a ultrasmall hd of 60 Gb and a pocket drive of 8 Gb. It seems that the trend to miniaturization is still going strong. I am looking forward to cheap mobile storage measured in Gb. Liviu

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Alexander Turcic Fully Converged Posts: 18,175 Karma: 14021202 Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Switzerland Device: Too many to count here.	Meanwhile Toshiba is introducing the 200GB 2.5" HDD, perfect size for my notebook Seagate must fight hard to win the future market for mobile storage as Flash is getting cheaper and bigger as well.

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