Guinness's World's Smallest Hard Drive Record

ketbra writes "CNN reports that Toshiba has received the Guinness World record for the smallest disk drive for their new 0.85-inch HDD. (Covered on Slashdot a while back) The technology editor from Guiness made the comment that "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". "

At last....

[Kenja]

At last, a hard drive thats also a suppository. Just what we need after a few too many rounds of Guinness.

You know you're a geek if...

[Austerity Empowers]

You look at the picture and say "Damn, that's a big quarter."

Huh? Where's it go?

[basil montreal]

The bigger the inside, the smaller the outside. I've already lost 2 hard drives this way... When will they stop?? Is it too much to ask for something at least one cubic foot?

Adorable

[Anonymous Coward]

Is it strange to think that hard drive is cute ?

Not sure why, but it just seems adorable in a little puppy dog kind of way.

upgrade time?

[js3]

dude needs a raise to upgrade his 2gig clunker

BSOD

[Mr. Certainly]

What will we do when our watches have a BSOD?

YES

[superpulpsicle]

Now my porn is more accessible than ever.

So who will be the first.......

[MrIrwin]

To set the record for how many you can eat in a minute using a cocktail stick?

What a let down...

[MalaclypseTheYounger]

Was anyone else supremely disappointed to see the word 'Guinness' (possibly mispelled) and find that the article was not about beer, with this being the day before St. Patty's day and all?

(Offtopic +1, Beer)

Re:Guiness has no idea....

[HD Webdev]

Smallest market share?

Smallest Drive

[Anonymous Coward]

Am I the only person that immediately thought, "Wow, 1 bit!".

Re:YES

[wviperw]

In the not too far future... [man looks down at watch] "What time is it Pamela?"

great..

[Anubis333]

One more thing to lose. I can't wait for the day when I need tweasers and a magnifying glass to replace a HD.

Re:Odd

[tanguyr]

tomorrow they'll put 16 gb drives *inside* quarters.

Re:Adorable

[Anonymous Coward]

It's just so teensy-weensy!

Damn that sounds gay.

Re:Odd

[hasdikarlsam]

Well, obviously it's all part of the Great Publisher Conspiracy.

Computer parts get better all the time; thus, they can publish "Guiness '04", and then push "Guiness '05" as an essential upgrade two years later.

Re:Smallest Drive

[damien_kane]

"Wow, 1 bit!"

Being about the size of a quarter, wouldn't it be 2 bits?

Re:You know you're a geek if...

[sepluv]

Glad I'm not the only one.

As I'm in the UK, I thought "they have very big coins in the US don't they?"

The next wave is comming

[Stevyn]

Thousands of geeks applied to Guinness for creating the smallest linux distro. At the end of the day, only 3 were left standing.

I win!

[drwtsn32]

I have a 5MB MFM drive in my garage.

Wristwatch pr0n!

[Pig Hogger]

Wow! Now I can bring my own pr0n collection with me all the time, and I can use it...
Wait, no, I can sure watch it, but I certainly won't be able to use it!!!

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A Day Early?

[ackthpt]

Nearly everyone knows that St. Patrick's Day is the 17th, and a day many people tip a pint of Guinness in tribute, in a pub, for which (ta-da) the Guinness Book or World Records was created to settle bets and disagreements.

Consider two geeks in a pub (yeah, it's a stretch, usually one pint and they're under the table babbling about some OS or Kirk&Spok or making Monty Python references before passing out, ..):

Geek 1:

"So then I visualized a tiny Beowulf cluster with a slew of IBM microdrives, the smallest drives in the world and it was..."
Geek 2: "Whoa, Cowboy, Toshiba has the smallest hard drive in the world."
Geek 1: "No, it's IBM, you're wrong romulan breath!"
Geek 2: "NOT! It's Toshiba!"
Barmaid: "Hold on boys, I'll get the book to settle this."
Geek 1: "Awe crap, OK, so it's Toshiba!"
Geek 2: "Facial burns on you!"
Geek 1: "So I filled out a request for the parts."
Geek 2: "What did purchasing say?"
Geek 1: "They said they couldn't understand it because I filled it out in spanish."
Geek 2: "Ah ha! They didn't expect the spanish requisisition!"
Barmaid throws the book at them.

Now what we need are camera watches.

[demonic-halo]

Yes,

We can all be super spies. With gigs of data in a watch, we can sneak into foreign embassies and video tape almost everything in sight.

Re:At last....

[baywulf]

You mean those 5-1/2 drives could not be used as suppositories? How do you think Mr. Goatse got the way he is?

Re:At last....

[stephenisu]

I have a problem swallowing the need for that. "Good NEWS!, It's a suppository." - the Professor.

Re:great..

[Blublu]

Do you realize what you just posted?

Re:BSOD

[forkazoo]

Naturally, we'll have to press Inidlo-Start-Mode to reboot it.

Computer stereotype

[GoofyBoy]

And what flavour is your iMac?

Re:You know you're a geek if...

[Mikkeles]

In Canada, they're [dynamicearth.ca] even [roadsideattractions.ca] larger [bigthings.ca]:^)

Guinness has been duped!

[tmhsiao]

Everyone in the industry knows that Toshiba hasn't made small hard drives, they've bred huge people [richinternetapps.com]

Re:Guiness has no idea....

[Anonymous Coward]

Guinness... I can't recall that little thing... Well, let's have a look at the calendar...
OH MY GOD !!! Tomorrow ! Saint-Patrick Day !
Thanx you /., without this article, I would have missed a couple of stout pints !

Re:Get a clue

[whathappenedtomonday]

> What planet are you on?

now that is one heck of a good question - so you don't know, either? I feel better already...

apart from that, exactly why is this news on /.? the drive itself has already been covered here, and as you say, theres little a geek could get out of the guinness book. their beer is ok, but that's about it.

Quarter storage capacity

[odie_q]

I believe the storage capacity of a standard coin is 1 bit, heads or tails. Some coins can also be placed on their edge, producing a third result. This is however considered out of spec, and will generally stabilize to one of the two defined states.

Slashdot "one upping" Mad libs--

[seibed]

the competition to see who had the earliest/smallest bit of technology:

"I had a [sinclair, 128k mac, apple, amiga] with a [subtract one unit from previous post]k hard drive, even after I doubled it in size with [crappy software] I wish I still had it, I'd set it up to run a [web server, distributed computing ap] but for now I guess I will have to be satisfied with running it in emulation mode with my [DR-DOS, OS2, BeOS, DOS 3.1] box!

I plan on...

[enrico_suave]

I'm going to fill up the world's tiniest drive with really really small thumbnail sized pr0n!

e.

Re:Smallest Drive

[Chris Burke]

Being about the size of a quarter, wouldn't it be 2 bits?

Which is what you need to encode all possibilites of getting a shave and/or haircut, coincidentally enough.

Re:Guiness has no idea....

[Total_Wimp]

So, if I run a RAM disk on my SD card then what category do I get?

If I manage to make a spinning media HD of the same physical size but it holds more data does it get marked down as "smallest" or "largest" or "largest smallest"?

If I'm driving the speed of light and turn on my headlights do I get "fastest car", "slowest light" or most "expensive ticket"?

TW

My Prediction...

[PoPRawkZ]

I predict that this record will be broken every 18 months without fail.

Re:At last....

[Pieroxy]

I always suspected that size did matter after all. But smaller is better? Who would have thought???