New mini hard drive coming to market

(San Jose, California-AP) -- Computer hard drives are getting bigger -- and smaller. <br/><br/>Seagate Technology is introducing a mini hard disk about the size of a postage stamp. <br/><br/>The new line

Monday, June 14th 2004, 9:44 am

By: News On 6

(San Jose, California-AP) -- Computer hard drives are getting bigger -- and smaller.

Seagate Technology is introducing a mini hard disk about the size of a postage stamp.

The new line of one-inch drives will come in two-point-five or five gigabyte capacities.

Seagate says it'll have versions for portable music or video players, and in a compact flash card format for digital cameras.

A Seagate executive says the new disk drives should spur rivals of Apple's popular iPod digital music player.

A Seagate spokesman says the new high-capacity mini drives should sell for under 200 dollars.