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November 06, 2003
Advances in Portable Hard Drive Tech
Posted by Ernest Miller
Yesterday, C|Net News took a look at Toshiba's advances in small hard drives for portable devices (Tiny Toshiba drive gets a boost). These hard drives, which are only 1.8" in diameter, about the size of a credit card, can now store 40GB of information. They may already be used in the iPod and similar Hitachi drives are being used in Dell's new Digital Jukebox MP3 players. 40GB can store approximate 6 full-length movies or dozens of hours of television - all in something that fits in a shirt pocket. Heaven forbid that such innovative uses develop without the not-so-friendly regulatory arm of government controlling that development. Just how successful would the Diamond Rio have been if it had needed FCC approval first?
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Ernest Miller pursues research and writing on cyberlaw, intellectual property, and First Amendment issues. Mr. Miller attended the U.S. Naval Academy before attending Yale Law School, where he was president and co-founder of the Law and Technology Society, and founded the technology law and policy news site LawMeme. He is a fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School.
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