Extremely Tiny Hard Drive

This is a Seagate ST1 type hard drive. I opened it after it stopped working. I thought it was just a compact flash drive but I found out different. Check it out its a mini hard drive.

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• hard drive
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• small
• cf
• compact flash

[Eversor86]

Thats nothing special. USB drives with platter HDDs isn't something unknown. PQI and other flash drive companies have had such in their product lists. Only think odd about them is they use drives without typical dimensions (which are 3,5" (normal PC) and 2,5" (laptop)). Those are or 1,8" (sometimes netbooks, small portable devices) and 1" which I believe this one on the movie is. Those are dedicated for even smaller portable stuff, or USB portable drives.

[djrock9000]

@Eversor86 Yeah I just thought it was really neat. I have never seen a drive so small that still had physical moving parts. This one came out of a USB drive that I had laying around.

[djrock9000]

@Eversor86 That would be awesome. I was thinking of making this a keychain but when I brought it to work to show some people, I accidentally dropped it and broke the platter. Would have been cool though.

[VCSandARM]

whoa that is tiny

[djrock9000]

@VCSandARM I think there is only one platter in it too!

[VCSandARM]

@djrock9000 thats soo cool, where did you find it?

[djrock9000]

@VCSandARM I got it out of a USB drive that my Fiance had. The contacts on the USB connector were getting bad and she needed to upgrade anyway so I ripped it apart. I was originally thinking that it was just a Flash drive but I found out different. lol. If I remember correctly, it was a 4GB drive. The drive is a Seagate drive. Not sure of the brand it was sold under though.

[jackknife0001]

@djrock9000 same here!

[cheetawolf]

awwwww, its so cute.

<3

[Eversor86]

@iToasterman Technically speaking 1.8" 4800rpm and 2.5" 5400rpm are similar in performance. The 1.8" aren't used to much, cause they aren't produced any more, or are to low in numbers. It's easier to use 2.5". But that doesn't mean that you cant use 1.8" (for example SSD) in your netbook. SSD aren't that bad. They are cheaper and cheaper and really? If HDD fails, you lose your data too. Theoretically by just plain numbers SSDs are safer ^_^, but we all know like how it is in real life.

[iToasterman]

@Eversor86 because they dont use them. thats just a waste of money and lacks storage and performance! >:D SSD's are the way to go! but il emit, i dont have a ssd yet, too pricy and when they fail, say bye to your data!

[Eversor86]

@iToasterman That does what? Work with 1.8" drives? Each and all netbooks that have 2.5" inch drive (bay) can work with 1.8". If you are asking if any netbook is sold with 1.8" drive - don't know and to lazy to check all netbooks, but its possible that expensive ones will ship with some 1.8" SSD (in place of 2.5" one). HDD in 1.8" are probably not produced any more. Why you even fight over this matter?

[iToasterman]

@Eversor86 Find a modern netbook from a popular brand that does it.

[Eversor86]

@iToasterman They do. Same as notebooks. 1.8" drives have same ports like 2.5". Some SSDs are 1.8". You can plug them (1.8" drives) both in netbook and notebook.

[iToasterman]

@Eversor86 what? they dont use 1.8 either :p

[Eversor86]

@iToasterman Didn't write that they do. Read few times, then think, then reply XD. Or even think twice ^_^ I wrote that netbooks sometimes use 1.8". And that his 1" drive is used for smaller stuff.

[iToasterman]

@Eversor86 netbooks dont use drives like these