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I was opening my old Tomtom gps system because I wanted to dispose of the battery (wasn't easy).

And I discovered the smallest HDD I ever (knowingly) held in my hand (20GB)(I know there were even smaller ones).

No wonder those GPS devices were expensive.

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How old is old? I'm guessing that's from before the time of affordable flash, so that would be the way to get affordable capacity. I'm guessing it is older than my  first Tomtom which used SD card to hold data.

 

Nearest I had was an iPod mini, which used 1" microdrives.

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At one point Toshiba made the MK4001MTD which was a 4GB 0.85" HDD. I think it went into a few phones and MP3 player for a short period of time, but then flash memory got cheap. Almost feels like a shame really. 

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17 minutes ago, porina said:

How old is old? I'm guessing that's from before the time of affordable flash, so that would be the way to get affordable capacity. I'm guessing it is older than my  first Tomtom which used SD card to hold data.

 

Nearest I had was an iPod mini, which used 1" microdrives.

Yeah those were used early 2000s "ipod era" 

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The year of introduction is cleverly hidden in the sequence of letters and numbers after the phrase Disk Drive, that is 2008.

 

And if your really curious, there are manuals available on line from many sites, including I believe Toshiba itself.

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2 hours ago, Needfuldoer said:

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The iPod Classic used those, too.

 

 

I've found that too often Pro Support is just paying someone to go on-line and do the research instead of doing it yourself.

 

Which is a problem for those who actually do know what they're talking about.

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18 hours ago, porina said:

How old is old? I'm guessing that's from before the time of affordable flash, so that would be the way to get affordable capacity. I'm guessing it is older than my  first Tomtom which used SD card to hold data.

 

Nearest I had was an iPod mini, which used 1" microdrives.

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