Hard disks going small
Hard disk phyiscal sizes are going down even more. This is a little tour comparing sizes, capacity and price in the last 2 years.
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- 2003: Toshiba
- Size: 0.85 in
- Capacity: 2-4 Gb
- Price: 30.000 Yen, planned starting 2005
- 2004: Cornice
- Size: 1 in
- Capacity: 2 Gb
- Price: $70 at order of 100.000 pieces
- 2004: GS Magicstor
- Size: 1 in (CompactFlash)
- Capacity: 4.8 Gb
- 2005: Cornice
- Size: 1 in (CompactFlash)
- Capacity: 3 and 4 Gb
- Product page: [3 Gb|http://www.corniceco.com/products/3gb.html] / [4 Gb|http://www.corniceco.com/products/4gb.html]
Looks like after a big jump they slowed down. Hopefully they will have low prices in the future.
References:
- [Cornice|http://www.corniceco.com/]
- [GS Magic|http://www.gs-magic.com/index_en.asp]
- [prohardver.hu|http://prohardver.hu/rios3_content.php?mod=10&id=4819]
- [prohardver.hu Toshiba|http://prohardver.hu/rios3_content.php?mod=10&id=4862]
- [it.news.hu Toshiba|http://it.news.hu/rios3_content.php?mod=10&id=5041]
- [prohardver.hu Cornice|http://prohardver.hu/rios3_content.php?mod=10&id=4952]
- [prohardver.hu GS Magicstor|http://prohardver.hu/rios3_content.php?mod=10&id=4967]
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