TOSHIBA DEVELOPS 1TB HARDDISK OF THE SIZE OF A POSTAGE STAMP

Gone are the days of punch cards, gone are the days of  magnetic tapes gone are the days of 5" harddrive and gone are the days of bluerays also(before it can capture the market).
Yeah in the recent future you can definitely plan to throw away your latest, fastest and smallest storage medium.
That means throwing your 2.5" drives that comes in your notebook and even 1.8" drive that's inside your ipod.

With the development of promising SSDs (solid state drive) which is yet to revolutionize the way we store our data.



Till date SSDs promised increased speed and better stability but now according to hothardware.com  Toshiba have developed 1TB harddisk that of a size of a postage stamp.  (wowwwwww thats from my side)
A partnership between the company and Tokyo's Keio University has created a new technology that could allow SSDs to store as much as 1TB on size of that of  a postage stamp.

The report states that the two have been able to integrate 128GB NAND Flash chips and a single controller into a stamp-sized form factor.  They have even made it operational with transfer rates of 2Gbps (or 250MB/sec) with data transfer that relies on short-range, electromagnetic communication. And with increased power efficiency.
A application-ready working model can only be produced around 2012.
Till then keep an eye and ears open .. who knows someday someone would come and say 'HONEY I SHRUNK THE KIDS'... and you keep guessing what was shrunked.

courtesy hothardware.com