# World's smallest disk drive

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**Created:** [March 16, 2004, 6:22pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/worlds-smallest-disk-drive/104484 "2004-03-16T18:22:08Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 16, 2004, 6:22pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/worlds-smallest-disk-drive/104484/1 "2004-03-16T18:22:08Z")

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TOKYO, Japan (Reuters) – Japan’s Toshiba Corp said on Tuesday that Guinness World Records had certified its stamp-sized hard disk drives (HDDs) as the smallest in the world.

The electronics conglomerate’s 0.85-inch HDDs, unveiled in January, have storage capacity of up to four gigabytes and will be used in products such as cell phones and digital camcorders.

Toshiba, whose 1.8-inch HDDs are used in Apple Computer Inc’s hot-selling iPod digital music players, for example, aims to start producing the 0.85-inch HDDs by the end of 2004.

“Toshiba’s innovation means that I could soon hold more information in my watch than I could on my desktop computer just a few years ago,” said David Hawksett, science and technology editor at Guinness World Records.