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Credit Card-Size Hard Drive Can Hold 5GB

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by Julio Franco, Jan 17, 2003.

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  1. Julio Franco TechSpot Editor

    Sounds like a very impressive and exciting piece of technology, even more when you consider there are moving parts inside the card (read below), perhaps this has a lot to do with the relatively low price (I suppose $15 = 100mb card).

    The article also details comments on high durability and even flexibility of the card, access speeds remain to be seen, too.

    Created by a company with the same name, StorCard can contain from 100MB to more than 5GB of data on a plastic card. At first glance, it looks like a credit card, and even has a magnetic strip like a credit card, for potential use in standard credit card readers.

    The hard disk data, however, is accessed on a tiny spinning disk inside the thin card. A spinning wheel made of Mylar is engaged when the card is inserted into a StorReader, a USB-connected drive or PC Card that reads and writes to the StorCard. The reader is expected to retail for under $100 and the cards for under $15 each, Heil says.
  2. Phantasm66 Newcomer, in training

    i imagine that some day in the future, you will carry around a credit card sized device that will contain ALL of your personal data. Every book you ever read. Every e-mail you ever sent or received. Everything....
  3. Vehementi TechSpot Paladin

    Microsoft Mind .ORG 2046.

    since .NET has been ditched

    Ooh or Maxtor DiamondMind 200TB w/ 8GB cache.
  4. Justin Newcomer, in training

    I remember an article a few years ago that spoke about holographic data storage in a cube, and that once sucessful, the cubes would be able to contain all the digital information that exists on the entire earth today.
  5. Rick TechSpot Staff

    Now just imagine what they can do with a sphere.

    Never underestimate the power of pi.
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