Seagate has announced it is to produce a 5 GB HDD in the CF Type II form factor, although they can't use the name 'Microdrive' that is essentially what this device is. Details at this point are a little thin on the ground, the metal cased device will be available in 2.5 GB and 5 GB capacities, it has a rotational speed of 3600 RPM and features 'RunOn' technology which appears to be a buffering system which avoids data loss if the unit is knocked or vibrated in use. Seagate will also be producing a 'built in' version of the device which is designed to be hardwired into devices such as MP3 players or PDA's.

Source: Dpreview

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nice now if i only had a digital camera that would be great im sure you can fix alot of raw uncompressed photos on there,how much do they cost?

Hehehehe now we have a place to store all that porn we look at on our web surfing phones..... LOL personaly I think the best uses for this are Camera's and realy small MP3 players

true,doesnt the ipod mini uses a 4GB microdrive,i wonder if they would upgrade to 5GB's

yeah i think the new mini ipods have a 4 gb disk.

lol
i have a regular Ipod
it is 20Gb
it is really nice