Building a Reader for the World's Smallest Hard Drive — MK4001MTD
Summary
The article documents a historical hardware project to read Toshiba's 0.85-inch hard drive MK4001MTD, detailing the reverse engineering process, use of a Nokia N91 for probing, and an OpenClaw based solution running on a Raspberry Pi Pico to expose the drive as USB mass storage. It discusses AI model assistance and the evolution of the firmware and hardware design.