Tiny hard drives deliver holiday cheer

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Tiny Hard Drives Need New Plug

Tiny Hard Drives Need New Plug 09/09/2004 04:59 PM
Portable consumer electronics and handhelds need a smaller more efficient interface for hard drives, so Intel and others are working to define a new spec, CE-ATA.

Toshiba's new tiny hard drives

Toshiba's new tiny hard drives 12/15/2003 11:35 AM
Toshiba's new hard drives are the size of a nickel and can store over a gigabyte of data.

The 0.85 inch diameter disk is believed to be the world's smallest hard disk drive that can store about 2 or 3 gigabytes worth of information, company spokeswoman Midori Suzuki said Monday.

Link (via Werblog)

Tiny hard drives get bigger capacities
at CES

Tiny hard drives get bigger capacities
at CES 01/05/2005 02:09 PM
Seagate and Hitachi are boosting storage capacities on their miniature drives and improving efficiency, which will translate into improved portable media players.

Tiny Hard Drives Coming to Cell Phones

Tiny Hard Drives Coming to Cell Phones 07/09/2004 03:24 PM
Extreme Tech Jul 9 2004 8:07PM GMT

Holiday Cheer In The Cave

Holiday Cheer In The Cave 12/22/2003 05:21 PM
Stephen Hayford sent along this holiday cheer from his cave in Florida.

Holiday cheer arrives early for snitch
lovers

Holiday cheer arrives early for snitch
lovers 12/06/2003 07:55 PM
How old today is the kid who did the voice for Charlie Brown? Who's behind Songs of Badend Cheer? What's so great about Google's new "Deskbar?".

Tiny tiny 4GB hard drive

Tiny tiny 4GB hard drive 04/09/2004 04:11 PM
So you thought the 4GB IBM/Hitachi micro drives as used in the iPod mini are small? Toshiba is making a 4GB drive that is only 2.1cm (0.85 inch) in diameter. (via Macminute) Less than 10 years ago when I had my BBS and FidoNet hub "the Source!" (spelled that way) I had a much bigger disk with much less capacity that imploded. Henrik Jřrgensen came to the rescue, lending me a 4GB scsi disk and a scsi controller so I...

IFD-iV Flash Drives Masquerade as ATA
Hard Drives

IFD-iV Flash Drives Masquerade as ATA
Hard Drives 07/15/2004 08:59 AM

For embedded computing hackers, mass storage (like hard drives) is often the most frustrating piece of the puzzle, as the fragile and power-hungry spin of the hard drive is usually the last non-solid-state part in the whole deployment. And while most engineers will just use a Compact Flash card, sometimes the only option is an ATA (hard drive) connection; that's where the IFD-iV flash memory parts from IO Data Device Corporation come in. Basically just flash memory drives, the defining feature of the IFD-iVs (besides fairly rugged operating specifications) is that they use the standard ATA connection of a hard drive, meaning they can be deployed in place of hard drives when necessary. Models up to 2GB in capacity will be available for around $2,100 -- maybe we'll just deal with the fragile hard drives instead.
Read - Flash memory ATA hard drive [TechJapan]

Update: Reader Tom Lee brings up a much cheaper option for hackers on a budget (after the jump.)

Keep Your Confidential Data Confidential
With Biometric Fingerprint Flash Drives
and Hard Disk Drives

Keep Your Confidential Data Confidential
With Biometric Fingerprint Flash Drives
and Hard Disk Drives 02/01/2005 09:13 PM
Now you can have safe, secure, portable storage of your confidential business and personal data with the biometric fingerprint ClipDrive Bio USB Flash Drive and the Outbacker USB biometric fingerprint Hard Disk Drive. The devices are non-operational until a validated fingerprint or password is received. [PRWEB Jan 21, 2005]

An Array of Tiny Drives

An Array of Tiny Drives 09/13/2004 01:27 AM
Six hard drives in a RAID array: It sounds noisy, clunky, and hot. But as JMR's new SATAStor shows, a RAID array can be compact and quiet.

Tiny drives set for space boost

Tiny drives set for space boost 04/05/2005 06:37 AM
Hitachi demonstrates a leap in hard drive technology which will lead to one-inch hard drives that can hold 60Gb.

Other News: Seagate Making Tiny Drives

Other News: Seagate Making Tiny Drives 06/08/2004 10:31 AM
With Apple blaming Hitachi for its inability to deliver iPod Minis, Seagate will enter the market with new 1" hard drives.

Seagate lands customer for tiny drives

Seagate lands customer for tiny drives 07/21/2004 04:39 PM
Creative Technology has signed up to use 1-inch drives from Seagate.

Briefly: Seagate lands customer for tiny
drives

Briefly: Seagate lands customer for tiny
drives 07/21/2004 04:39 PM
roundup Plus: Intel's top lawyer to retire...Texas Instruments profit surges...Atheros reaches into electronics devices...Oracle backs Asian Linux project.

Tiny hard drive packs a big punch

Tiny hard drive packs a big punch 01/09/2004 09:54 PM

As Uses Grow, Tiny Materials' Safety Is
Hard to Pin Down

As Uses Grow, Tiny Materials' Safety Is
Hard to Pin Down 11/03/2003 03:14 AM
New York Times Nov 3 2003 1:45AM ET

Toshiba unveils tiny hard-disk drive

Toshiba unveils tiny hard-disk drive 12/16/2003 08:54 PM
CNET Asia Dec 16 2003 8:13PM ET

Samsung Cell Phones to Get Tiny Hard
Drive

Samsung Cell Phones to Get Tiny Hard
Drive 09/09/2004 12:26 PM
Samsung's new SPH-V5400 mobile phone sports a built-in 1-inch, 1.5-gigabyte hard disk that can store about 15 times more data than conventional handsets, Samsung said.

Tiny Hard Drive Manufacturers Turn Up
The Heat

Tiny Hard Drive Manufacturers Turn Up
The Heat 07/01/2004 10:48 AM

According to The Inquirer, Japanese companies are rapidly increasing production of their small hard drives as, unsurprisingly, the demand for tiny storage that will fit in portable electronics increases rapidly. Toshiba is planning on ramping up production of its tiny 0.85-inch hard drives to a rate of almost 200,000 a month, while Hitachi will increase its 1-inch drive production to two million units per quarter. Global hard drive markers shipped 260 million units in fiscal 2003, 80 percent of which went into servers and PCs. The remaining percentage, which goes into home electronics, are expected to grow by 50% each year -- I'm betting it will be even greater than that once the manufacturers can get enough tiny units into the channels. Two years from now there won't be a single smartphone announced without a hard drive.
Read - Toshiba to ship 200,000 a month 0.85-inch hard drives [TheInquirer]

Samsung Cell Phones to Get Tiny Hard
Drive (AP)

Samsung Cell Phones to Get Tiny Hard
Drive (AP) 09/09/2004 11:17 AM
AP - Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has announced the world's first mobile phone to sport a tiny hard drive. With the built-in 1-inch, 1.5-gigabyte hard disk, the SPH-V5400 could store about 15 times more data than conventional handsets — everything from digital music files and photos to video, Samsung said.

BBC NEWS | Technology | Tiny hard drive
packs a big punch

BBC NEWS | Technology | Tiny hard drive
packs a big punch 01/10/2004 07:15 AM
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Toshiba Whips Out Tiny Hard Drive,
Smacks Apple

Toshiba Whips Out Tiny Hard Drive,
Smacks Apple 07/30/2004 06:47 PM

Toshiba has semi-announced that they will claim the throne of "world's smallest portable audio player containing a hard drive" in 2005, thanks to their 0.85 inch hard drive announced in January. The iPod mini, freshly released in Japan, currently holds the title. It's not the size that matters, Toshiba. Wait, yeah it is, sorry. The capacity of Toshiba's new player is expected to be 2GB or more.

Read - Article (Japanese) [Asahi Shimbun via Slashdot.jp]

Defragment All Hard Drives

Defragment All Hard Drives 09/20/2004 01:00 PM

Arg! Memory, XP, and hard drives...

Arg! Memory, XP, and hard drives... 03/06/2004 01:53 AM
Ok... Sorry for the delay in posting anything. "ultra" - my main box, has had some issues during the last...

Hottest Hard Drives

Hottest Hard Drives 03/20/2003 01:05 PM
In 20 years, the hard disk drive has progressed from an IBM PC luxury add-on to an indispensable part of any computer, and finally to a component so inexpensive it can be upgraded on impulse. What are today's hottest hard drives, and what is on the horizon for this vital technology?

Next-Generation Hard Drives

Next-Generation Hard Drives 11/07/2003 11:04 AM

External FireWire Hard Drives

External FireWire Hard Drives 10/29/2003 01:13 AM
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Exp. 11/03 More deals inside...

New Hard Drives to Expand DVR Capacity

New Hard Drives to Expand DVR Capacity 04/28/2004 09:30 PM
San Jose Mercury News Apr 29 2004 1:42AM GMT

Grim times for hard drives

Grim times for hard drives 05/28/2004 06:14 AM
ZDNet UK May 28 2004 9:49AM GMT

Labs look beyond today's hard drives

Labs look beyond today's hard drives 07/21/2004 09:37 AM
ZDNet Jul 21 2004 2:09PM GMT

200 Gig Hard-Drives on sale at CompUSA

200 Gig Hard-Drives on sale at CompUSA 10/28/2003 11:07 PM
There are a few good things about being on travel I have a chance to spend a little extra time...

New Hard Drives to Expand DVR Capacity
(AP)

New Hard Drives to Expand DVR Capacity
(AP) 04/28/2004 08:10 PM
AP - The power of the U.S. cable and satellite TV industries rests on the 85 million households they count as subscribers. But the influence of Hollywood, which controls the entertainment flow, is even more formidable.

New Technology for More Spacious Hard
Drives

New Technology for More Spacious Hard
Drives 03/20/2003 01:05 PM
An old adage in the computer industry holds that you can never be too rich or have too much space on your hard drive. That may be difficult to believe now, considering that the hard drives in many personal computers sold today can now store the digital equivalent of several complete sets of encyclopedias. And leave plenty of room to spare.

Green Tea Good for Hard Drives

Green Tea Good for Hard Drives 04/29/2004 05:00 AM
The same tannins in green tea that cause stains to form on your mugs and teapots could save the hard-drive manufacturing industry some serious dough, says a team of researchers. By Amit Asaravala.

Hard Drives the unsung Hero

Hard Drives the unsung Hero 05/27/2004 12:28 PM

I had to smile today. Sitting on my shelf of memorabilia is a 65 meg RLL Hard-drive that I payed $465.00 for back in the mid 80's. I was the top dog on the block and all of my buddies and I marveled at how we would every fill it up. Little did I know that in 1993 I would layout $1056.00 for a 1.6 Gig drive.
I have been kicking myself in the butt every since. But luckily the days of over-priced hard-drives are long gone. The history of the Hard-Drive is an amazing one. [CNet]

Not-So-Clean Hard Drives For Sale

Not-So-Clean Hard Drives For Sale 06/08/2004 11:40 PM
Slashdot Jun 9 2004 4:16AM GMT

A new handshake for mini hard drives?

A new handshake for mini hard drives? 09/09/2004 06:09 PM
Intel, Hitachi, Toshiba and others propose CE-ATA, a new interface for miniature hard drives used in consumer electronics.

FireWire Hard Drives and The Future of
the TBU

FireWire Hard Drives and The Future of
the TBU 06/12/2004 06:49 PM

I bought a FireWire hard drive enclosure the other day, and I'm awfully happy with it. It cost about $45 and I filled it with an old 40GB hard drive I had lying around. It works beautifully — plug it into a FireWire port and you get a G: drive.

It makes me wonder what'll happen to the venerable tape backup unit (TBU). I have a TBU on my server, but it's old, slow, cranky, and only holds 20GB. Furthermore, 20GB tapes are like, $30 while hard drives are running less than a dollar per gigabyte these days.

Right now, I can think of no reason why I would use my TBU for anything anymore. Am I missing something? I imagine that tapes are physically pretty durable, certainly more so than a hard drive, but is there anything else?

I'm using this portable hard drive for off-site backups. Once a week, I'll bring the drive in, copy the latest backups onto it, and take it home where it will sit on my bookshelf for a week until I bring it in again to refresh the backups.

FireWire hard drives, incidentally, are fast as lightning. I have a small RAID Tower which runs via FireWire. You'd never know it wasn't an internal SCSI drive. In fact, I installed a very CPU- and I/O-intensive server process on it once and it ran beautifully. Again, the simplicity is amazing — plug it in and you get an F: drive, end of story.

I'm so impressed with the utility of these things that I'd go so far as call them mandatory equipment for your PC. The enclosure will cost you $45. I found a 40GB Maxtor drive on Froogle for $32. I bought a FireWire card and cable on eBay last year for $15. That's $92 for 40GB of removable storage that you can throw in a fanny pack — tough to beat.

On my next PC, I'm going to physically separate the operating system from my data files. I'll keep all my data on an external FireWire unit, and only keep the OS and program files on the internal IDE unit. I'd love for my PC to be essentially disposable. If I have a problem, just pave and reload it knowing that all my data files are safe and secure a few feet away on the external unit. Perversely, I may mirror them on the internal drive just for redundancy.

For the record, I bought the Metal Gear Box from NewEgg. It was rock simple to get running — find a hard drive, physically screw it into the unit, plug it two cables, then plug it into the PC.

I'm not thrilled with look of the thing — it's all brushed aluminum and black metal grating. (Kind of makes me feel like a 40-year-old man driving around in a lowered Civic with a big wing on the back.) Additionally, when you put it down, there's no padding or rubber stops, so it kind of clanks against the desk, which makes me a little nervous.

Anyway, the theory is valid. External hard drives: good. FireWire: great. Go get one.

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Other News: WiFi Hard Drives

Other News: WiFi Hard Drives 04/12/2004 10:04 AM
Hooking up hard drives to wireless networks may shortly become easier.
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Soft-boiled-egg cakemod HOWTO

Soft-boiled-egg cakemod HOWTO 04/20/2004 07:25 AM
This cakemodder has devised a "soft-boiled egg cake" filled with lemon curd. Yummy! Link (Thanks, Yi!)

Sunbeams: Treasure from Boiled Liquid
Edition

Sunbeams: Treasure from Boiled Liquid
Edition 06/24/2004 02:53 AM
Let’s start with Phillip Wagstrom’s deb ut: If you've got something with a Sun logo on it that's not working right, you call me; once again, a window into a world I don’t know. Moving on, David Ogren gives us tasty little bite of blog-propaganda. Jon Haslam shows us how to use the incredibly-advanced features of Solaris to torture tcsh users, but then spoils it by admitting to being a miserably-deluded ksh devotee (Everybody Knows bash is the One True Shell). On the lighter side, Steve Lau calculates the cost of commuting, and Henry Jia survives some tests including “pass through electric grid” and “get treasure from boiled liquid”—with these guys on our side, how can we lose? To end on a serious note, Simon Phipps points to a remarkably beautiful video (watch it more than once) and Alec Muffet reflects on, well, life and how to live it.

Hard boiled crime stories, old and new,
in classic packaging

Hard boiled crime stories, old and new,
in classic packaging 09/06/2004 09:05 AM
Cory Doctorow: Hard Case Crime is a new paperback imprint that's reprinting old pulp crime novels and commissioning new novels in the style of the old pulps. They're publishing them in replica packaging designed to look like the old dime-novels, and they've even brought Robert McGinnis, best known for painting the original James Bond movie posters, out of retirement to do cover art.

From World War II through the 1960s, paperback crime novels were one of the fastest-selling categories in book publishing. Millions of readers snapped up hundreds of millions of books by well-known authors like Erle Stanley Gardner and Mickey Spillane, as well as by promising young writers like Lawrence Block, Elmore Leonard, and Ed McBain. Today, Block, Leonard, and McBain still make the bestseller lists with each new hardcover -- but the pulp novels that first captured the public's imagination weren't hardcovers. They were paperbacks you could fit in your back pocket, with jaw-dropping cover paintings and bare-knuckled prose that grabbed you by the collar with the first sentence and held you until the last page. No one's published books like that in years.

Link

CSS Source Examples

CSS Source Examples 06/14/2004 11:52 AM

A quick tip that anyone who would put together a CSS example page for an article or a demo should follow: embed your CSS in the HTML, don't link it.

Spot-a-Frog

Spot-a-Frog 06/01/2004 03:21 PM
Frogs! Some like to climb, while others prefer the ground. Some may be feeding on fruit flies; look closely to see how they eat. You may even observe some frogs hiding in holes and crevices or behind roots. See how many you can spot!

Ignazio The Frog (Mac) 1.2

Ignazio The Frog (Mac) 1.2 07/13/2004 10:32 AM
Ignazio The Frog is a curious one. He want to discover 20 beautiful images of flowers and cute animals.

Examples of Really Bad Lock-In?

Examples of Really Bad Lock-In? 06/17/2005 04:33 PM
It seems that Jason is annoyed because he's run into something that's rampant in the on-line services world: lock-in. I get a lot of inbound email and I like to upload those contacts to LinkedIn every couple of months so I can figure out which of my contacts are in there. However, as best I can tell (and I could be wrong here) the only way to get your contacts out of GMAIL is to cut and paste the “All...

Cayenne 1.1B3 (Examples)

Cayenne 1.1B3 (Examples) 09/22/2004 09:53 AM
An object relational persistence framework.

Bottom-Up Phenomenon

Bottom-Up Phenomenon 01/16/2004 10:56 AM
I have posted a great deal about the bottom-up phenomenon. Socialtext embraces it both in how our product works, how we sell it and how we run the company. David Kirkpatrick writes in Fortune about the Bottom-up Economy that I...

Cultural Phenomenon

Cultural Phenomenon 04/14/2005 06:52 AM
Umpqua Bank is changing the culture of customer service at banks, one ice-cream sandwich at a time.

Aquatic Phenomenon 1.0

Aquatic Phenomenon 1.0 12/05/2003 11:25 AM
A theme based on "Aquatic Phenomenon" wallpaper.

The Rogue DNS Phenomenon

The Rogue DNS Phenomenon 03/20/2003 01:05 PM
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which is responsible for allocating IP addresses and domain names, has not been winning many friends of late. Its recent decision to drop all elected seats on its board of directors was especially unpopular. What most people do not know is that there are alternatives to ICANN.

Daikini Atom API Examples

Daikini Atom API Examples 06/30/2004 12:57 PM
works with almost all popular weblog software

Add And Remove Programs SQL examples

Add And Remove Programs SQL examples 08/17/2004 07:10 PM

Code-X gets FileMaker 7 examples, more

Code-X gets FileMaker 7 examples, more 05/20/2004 11:35 AM
Hi-Voltage has released Code-X 1.4, an update of the FileMaker plug-in that allows developers to build registration functionality and issue custom registration codes to unlock their solutions...

Reality Television - fad and phenomenon

Reality Television - fad and phenomenon 02/13/2004 05:14 PM
For a few years now I haven't been able to turn on the tv, pick up a newspaper, or listen to the radio without hearing something to do with reality television. Lock them in a house or make them build one, throw them on an island to survive or to party, give them plane tickets and have them safari across the planet - if it can be done, it will, and we will watch every moment.

The iPod-iTunes Phenomenon

The iPod-iTunes Phenomenon 06/10/2004 09:59 AM
Much work is ahead for Apple. By Joe Wilcox, MacNewsWorld (via MyAppleMenu)

The growing phenomenon of Internet

The growing phenomenon of Internet 01/24/2004 02:19 AM
A CBC news report from 1993 looks at the growing phenomenon of "Internet." Jump into the Way Back machine and see the 'Net as it was over 10 years ago.

How Google became a cultural phenomenon

How Google became a cultural phenomenon 04/29/2004 04:18 PM
Boston Globe Apr 29 2004 7:58PM GMT

Dead frog found in salad

Dead frog found in salad 06/24/2005 06:20 PM
Mark Frauenfelder: Karpar says she found a small frog in her salad on Wednesday.

[T]oday, I found a frog in my salad from the company cafeteria.  Rest assured, I did not eat any of the frog, but it certainly was...erm- startling to say the least.  I returned the lunch to the cafeteria and got a refund.   The general manager will be contacting me later (he was not there when I returned the lunch).  My co-workers have reminded me that I have totally blown it since I could have sold it for big bucks on eBay to some casino.  Anyway, beware of the "organic" salad greens from Bon Appetit! 

Link (thanks, Jean-Paul!)

"Webl0g about examples of business
bl0gs"

"Webl0g about examples of business
bl0gs" 04/22/2004 02:51 PM

"XMLHttpRequest & Ajax Working Examples"

"XMLHttpRequest & Ajax Working Examples" 04/07/2005 10:28 AM

Eating frog legs = cannibalism?

Eating frog legs = cannibalism? 07/01/2004 08:51 AM
Irania n woman 'gives birth to frog' (BBC) "While it is unclear how this could have happened, the [Iranian] paper carries quotes from medical experts who say there are human characteristics to the animal....Medical history recounts stories of people who believed they had frogs - or even lizards or snakes - living and growing in their bodies....One of the most famous was the 17th Century case of Catharina Geisslerin, known as "the toad-vomiting woman" of Germany. " Could this be connected to that 20 pound carp's apocalyptic warnings spouted in Hebrew, last year, as a fish cutter tried to club it to death with a rubber hammer to make it into gefilte fish? Or, maybe it was those new tomatoes? Or an Old Testament thing, maybe a prophecy?

SQL Server Resource Examples Scripts

SQL Server Resource Examples Scripts 05/06/2004 01:15 PM

Plastic frog/weather station

Plastic frog/weather station 05/09/2004 03:02 AM
The FroggyBox is a sensor-pack in a plasitc frog with a serial interface (a wireless USB adapter is available), containing a thermometer, a barometer and an hygrometer -- basically everything you need to turn a PC into a weather station, especially when you add their forthcoming wireless plastic rooster, which contains an anemometer, weathercock, and heliograph. Link (Thanks, Sad Old Goth!)

Crazy Frog clings on to top spot

Crazy Frog clings on to top spot 06/05/2005 11:31 PM
The Crazy Frog's Axel F ringtone stays at number one in the UK singles chart.

terri needs good examples of bl0gs

terri needs good examples of bl0gs 08/03/2004 07:55 PM
interestingly, she's coming at research from a livejournal perspective

How Google Became a Cultural Phenomenon
(Reuters)

How Google Became a Cultural Phenomenon
(Reuters) 04/29/2004 02:50 PM
Reuters - So you've spent an hour Googling through the Web for your graduate research paper, you've played the Google drinking game, heard the Google theme song and vanity-Googled yourself (again).

"this explanation for the e-mail dumping
phenomenon"

"this explanation for the e-mail dumping
phenomenon" 07/31/2004 10:19 AM

NYT discovers the "Plam Pilot"
phenomenon

NYT discovers the "Plam Pilot"
phenomenon 01/28/2004 02:34 PM
In August, 2001, I wrote Metacrap, an essay about the problems with user-generated, explicit metadata, where I said,

Take eBay: every seller there has a damned good reason for double-checking their listings for typos and misspellings. Try searching for "plam" on eBay. Right now, that turns up nine typoed listings for "Plam Pilots." Misspelled listings don't show up in correctly-spelled searches and hence garner fewer bids and lower sale-prices. You can almost always get a bargain on a Plam Pilot at eBay.

A couple years later, the NYT has twigged to this, reporting on bargain hunters who search eBay listings for typos.

Such is the eBay underworld of misspellers, where the clueless -- and sometimes just careless -- sell labtop computers, throwing knifes, Art Deko vases, camras, comferters and saphires.

They do get bidders, but rarely very many. Often the buyers are those who troll for spelling slip-ups, buying items on the cheap and selling them all over again on eBay, but with the right spelling and for the right price. John H. Green, a jeweler in Central Florida, is one of them.

Lin k (Thanks, Clive!)

Tiny hard drives deliver holiday cheer

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