Toshiba Once Made Stamp-Sized HDDs — and Powered the First iPod
zephyr_z9 · x · 2026-10-17
A nostalgic tech meme: Toshiba pushed HDD miniaturization to extremes — its 1.8-inch drive powered the original 2001 iPod, growing from 5GB to 320GB, and it even developed a 0.85-inch stamp-sized HDD. In the flash era, the route looks both brilliant and absurd; zephyr retweeted it with "Micro Hard Disks, LOL."
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