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TOKYO - Toshiba Corp has developed a hard-disk drive (HDD) that measures 0.85 of an inch (22 millimeters) in diameter, smaller than the record one-inch HDD that Hitachi Global Storage Technologies released in November, company sources said on Saturday.
The drive, which is small enough to be used in mobile phones, can store up to two hours of high-definition moving images and just under 60 hours of music. Its tiny size will likely lead to the development of extremely small video cameras.
The one-inch HDD developed by the US affiliate of Hitachi Ltd is used in digital single-lens reflex cameras and other products, but is too big for mobile phones...