The World's Smallest Hard Drive

Toshiba Corp. has manufactured the world's smallest hard-disk drive, the MK4001MTD, a device the size of a postage stamp, measuring 0.85 inch (about 2.1 centimeters) in diameter.

The drive, which is small enough to boost the functionality of a new generation of products, including mobile phones, digital audio players, PDAs, digital still cameras, camcorders, etc., can store up to two hours of high-definition moving images and just under 60 hours of music.

The Toshiba HDD is initially expected to be priced at around 30,000 yen (280 dollars).

Specs:

• Data Storage Physical Per drive, formatted 4GB
• Number of Disks 1
• Number of Data Heads 2
• Data Transfer Rate 12.5MB/sec
• Voltage 3.0V (+10%/-5%)
• Rotational Speed 3,600rpm
• Average Latency 8.33ms
• Height 0.197" (5mm)
• Width 0.94" (24mm)
• Depth 1.26" (32mm)
• Weight 0.3 oz (8.5g)
• Shipping -40 - 176F (-40 to 80C)
• Operating Vibration 2G (5-500 Hz)
• Operating Shock 1000G/1ms
• Non-Operating Shock 2,000G/1.0ms