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World's smallest Hard Drive?
WHOA! this will be extremely sweet! 4gb on something the size of a quarter? Count me in if Toshiba pulls this off. Just think of the possibilities: thumbdrives, PocketPC/Palm's, cameras, mp3 players........
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WHOA! this will be extremely sweet! 4gb on something the size of a quarter? Count me in if Toshiba pulls this off.
Just think of the possibilities: thumbdrives, PocketPC/Palm's, cameras, mp3 players........Wikipedia and Google.... the needles to my tangent habit.
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That special feeling we get in the cockles of our hearts, Or maybe below the cockles, Maybe in the sub-cockle area, Maybe in the liver, Maybe in the kidneys, Maybe even in the colon, We don't know. -
IBM had 300GB drive in this form a few years ago. After news on websites I never heard about it. -
Re: World's smallest Hard Drive?
actually it was a 1GB drive and you had it in multiple areas... you could buy it in a pcmcia. it was called a microdrive. and it ended up being slower than flash memoryOriginally posted by dparadis
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/ptech/0...eut/index.html
WHOA! this will be extremely sweet! 4gb on something the size of a quarter? Count me in if Toshiba pulls this off.
Just think of the possibilities: thumbdrives, PocketPC/Palm's, cameras, mp3 players........Wikipedia and Google.... the needles to my tangent habit.
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That special feeling we get in the cockles of our hearts, Or maybe below the cockles, Maybe in the sub-cockle area, Maybe in the liver, Maybe in the kidneys, Maybe even in the colon, We don't know.Comment
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It's just a TAD smaller than IBM's microdrive.
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Yes but four times as large, and with by the nature of a denser platter, faster. Not to mention a few years more development.
That platter is the size of a quarter and the Toshiba more like a nickel. Just compared the pics and the width of the ibm is about the length of the toshiba.
All I know is I wouldn't want to be hte one putting these together.
Anyone ever use the microdrive? how was its ruggedness?Last edited by Claymonkey; 22 March 2004, 12:07.Wikipedia and Google.... the needles to my tangent habit.
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That special feeling we get in the cockles of our hearts, Or maybe below the cockles, Maybe in the sub-cockle area, Maybe in the liver, Maybe in the kidneys, Maybe even in the colon, We don't know.Comment
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@dparadis: I'm curious about it's rugedness too. Something that small looks really fragile, I imagine that one little bump might throw it all out of whack.Titanium is the new bling!
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my only guess is if Apple uses Toshiba's drives for the ipod they must be on the right track. Still, until I see so reviews I'm going to hold my breatheWikipedia and Google.... the needles to my tangent habit.
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That special feeling we get in the cockles of our hearts, Or maybe below the cockles, Maybe in the sub-cockle area, Maybe in the liver, Maybe in the kidneys, Maybe even in the colon, We don't know.Comment
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Physically it might work just the opposite of that because of the way mass and strength scale with size.Originally posted by ZokesPro
@dparadis: I'm curious about it's rugedness too. Something that small looks really fragile, I imagine that one little bump might throw it all out of whack.
So it might be less affected by bumps than a larger drive.
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Hitachi has annouced 2 and 4gb microdrives for quite some time, but I don't know if they are available on the market yet.
They should be faster than the older <1gb models.
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I'm using a Microdrive for some time now, it fell to the floor (wood) a few times, no problem at all. It automatically "parks" the heads within a few milliseconds after any read/write operations, so it's quite safe. The only performance problem I have with it is its latency - it needs to spin up before it starts writing, which of course takes longer than a CF. But it was cheaper (it isn't cheaper now, I think), and certainly faster than SanDisk CFs (which were painfully slow - now their Ultra II cards are among the fastest you can get).
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Yes, they're available. They power the mini iPods, for one thing.Originally posted by tonny
Hitachi has annouced 2 and 4gb microdrives for quite some time, but I don't know if they are available on the market yet.
http://www.hgst.com/hdd/micro/4gb.htmGigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.Comment
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Hard drives have had the automatic head parking for some time now...Originally posted by az
I'm using a Microdrive for some time now, it fell to the floor (wood) a few times, no problem at all. It automatically "parks" the heads within a few milliseconds after any read/write operations, so it's quite safe. The only performance problem I have with it is its latency - it needs to spin up before it starts writing, which of course takes longer than a CF. But it was cheaper (it isn't cheaper now, I think), and certainly faster than SanDisk CFs (which were painfully slow - now their Ultra II cards are among the fastest you can get).
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My Dad has had an old 340 MB IBM Microdrive in his digital camera for about 3 years now. We had some minor corrupt sectors a few months back, but after we backed up the data and gave the drive a format it's been working flawlessly since. Besides that ... no problems at all.
The new 2 GB and 4 GB MD's are supposed to be significantly faster and more durable. They are fast enough to stream 640x480 video with 16-bit stereo audio without trouble ... supposedly. Don't have one with a newer camera to test it.
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Kurt, of course they had. I was just saying that to point out that the heads can almost never hit the platters, because they're already parked when the drive hits the ground when it falls.
Now, flash cards have the edge - we'll see what becomes when the 4GB models become available retail.
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According to the spec sheet, the 4G microdrive can write at a sustained 4.3 - 7.2 MBytes per second. That corresponds to about 14x-48x. (for some reason, the industry standard for 1x is 150kB/second - the speed of an audio CD. Why they use this for CF cards is beyond me
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