Tomato's .3-inch thick 60GB hard drive
By Nilay Patel 
posted Dec 10th 2007 6:19PM
posted Dec 10th 2007 6:19PM
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I say tomatoe, you say tomāto.
Tomato! Lolz!
I wish the back of my Zune 80 looked that cheerful.
"Looks pretty darn nice" is what I'd be saying if it had a screen.
Why would you want an external hard drive to have a screen?
I guess what I was trying to say is that it would make for a very pretty MP3 player.
Anyone here know a) how to read Korean and/or b) how to order one of these to the states. This would be a perfect "holiday" present for a good friend.
Some blogs actually mistook this for a media player.
North or South Korea? Just wondering.
Probably North Korea... that is why they don't specify it.
Not funny.
I got a friend in Korea so I can get some from him :-D.
When was the last time you've seen a product from North Korea?
wtf do you think?
Heheheh. Actually, my grandparents own several silverware and china sets marked "Made in CCCP"
So the Socialists do actually export stuff sometimes. Plus, everyone KNOWS Windows is written and debugged in North Korea...why else would it be so evil? :=D
LMAO, Bob, you're one big kingkong idiot. ;p
I don't understand. How does it have a 1.8 inch hard-drive, yet it is only .8 inches thick?
.3 inches, even
1.8 inches referring to the radius of the disk, not the thickness.
not to be an know it all but its the diameter, not the radius.
Know it all. -_-
:)
0.8 inches, LOL. Not even the nasty brown First-Gen Zune is anywhere near that thick. Unfortunately they don't give out medals for trying so hard to not use your common sense =-/
great ... you can't read ... wow
read first, write later ;)
it's not *even* a new mp3 player. it's *just* a mobile hdd, but a very thin and very stylish one at that. i would like one. very much.
also i'ld like to know what these two buttons are for. maybe someone, who can read korean, can tell us ...
Probably not. PMPs usually use a specific brand hard drive that cannot be replaced. I think, anyway.
My friends and I have never had much luck with Toshiba hard drives. Just my 2 pence.
cash to anyone who guesses a show that features a computer called tomato.Here is a hint.It is owned by radical ............
Cowboy Bebop. Now where's my cash. :p
First time I read the head line I didn't see 'thick'. That actually would be awesome, a .3 inch diameter hdd with 60 gig.
Sure, it has a diameter of .3 inches... it's 1600 platters, though, so it's about 10 inches tall.
Actually... that would be like a really fat pencil... still not a bad way to carry 60gb.
Someone has got to show some links as how to get one. I actually like to have one!
I want this so much.
this looks awesome, totally want one. just in time for the holidays.
you can never go wrong with storage as a present, especially portable storage
anyone know how to get one?
Sure it's small, but for an external drive 60 Gigs is pretty skimpy these days.
They look pretty stylish.
wow. and I thought my 1mm thick 80gb hdd was slim. :)
now, just wondering how durable is the tomato?
better not drop it... would it splatter?! :)
would be a decent companion to an eee, IMO. Sure, it's not solid-state, but it's tiny and affordable. Tiny hd for tiny pc.
Some more pretty pictures at below link.
http://www.mpnavi.com/bbs/view.php?id=power_review&page=1&sn1=&divpage=1&sn=off&ss=on&sc=on&select_arrange=headnum&desc=asc&&no=349
Now someone please take one of these and slap Jobs upside the damn head with it. HD based iPod touch asshole. >:x(
Useless as a hard drive. Too small these days!!! I'm not even happy with the 120GB in my MacBook, and I was feeling cramped with a 320GB external drive.
Put it in a PMP and we'll talk. Stick it in the iPod touch, and we're in business.
I wouldn't bother with a portable drive under 100GB, though. Not at the price of bigger ones, these days.
I don't agree that 60 GB is useless as a HD. I would load Leopard and some disk utilities like DiskWarrior on it, use it as a medic disk. And that would leave plenty of room for transferring things like iMovie or Logic Express projects to my friend's house for collaboration.
For a HDD that small, I think 60GB is enough...
...unless you are a media freak.
Not interested. TOO thin. I'd be worried about snapping it.
Question: Who can direct us yanks to a site where we can order one?
Meh, I think this is a test for Hitachi's new HD technology they announced a while ago. They said they found a way to said the found a way to stack data on its side instead of flat, so they can be much more dense. See, what we use in the conventionary HD is like floor tiles, they are all layed out flat next to each other. Wouldn't it be WAY more effiveint to put them side to side like books on a shelf? And thats why you can get these smaller, higher capacity HDs. Hitachi said they wanted until early second quarter to test it out, they dont want the genius idea to go to hell just like solar cells because of a few bugs/crashes. They said they were going to release a 500 GB the size of a domino then, and the TB at that size n late 08, early 09. So manybe they got these guys cheap early versions to test out en masse. Eh?
Does anyone know if a harddrive like this can be powered by an aftermarket head unit for a car? This could be a cheaper alternative than buying a harddrive based mp3 player.
Bob:
Communist, not socialist. If there's one thing that socialists hate, it's when people confuse the two.
My guess is no since the zvm use pata, and this probably use sata like most of the new external hdd...