Guinness record for Toshiba’s tiny hard disk drive

TOKYO – Japan’s Toshiba Corporation said this week that Guinness World Records had certified its stamp-sized hard disk drives (HDDs) as the smallest in the world.

The electronics conglomerate’s 0.85-inch HDDs, unveiled in January, have storage capacity of up to four gigabytes and will be used in products such as cellphones and digital camcorders. Toshiba, whose 1,8-inch HDDs are used in Apple Computer Inc.’s hot-selling iPod digital music players, for example, aims to start producing the 0.85-inch HDDs by the end of 2004.”Toshiba’s innovation means that I could soon hold more information in my watch than I could on my desktop computer just a few years ago,” said David Hawksett, science and technology editor at Guinness World Records.Hawksett said in the statement that the world’s first hard drive device, introduced in 1956, needed 50 two-foot (60 centimetre) disks to store 4,4 megabytes.- Nampa-Reuters-AFPToshiba, whose 1,8-inch HDDs are used in Apple Computer Inc.’s hot-selling iPod digital music players, for example, aims to start producing the 0.85-inch HDDs by the end of 2004.”Toshiba’s innovation means that I could soon hold more information in my watch than I could on my desktop computer just a few years ago,” said David Hawksett, science and technology editor at Guinness World Records.Hawksett said in the statement that the world’s first hard drive device, introduced in 1956, needed 50 two-foot (60 centimetre) disks to store 4,4 megabytes.- Nampa-Reuters-AFP

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