01-06-2003, 03:00 PM
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Contributing Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 8,228
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4GB Microdrive by the Fall of 2003
"Hitachi Global Storage Technologies today announced plans to squeeze four gigabytes of data onto the 1-inch Microdrive, the world's smallest hard disk drive. With considerable advances in miniaturization technology, Hitachi engineers have overcome numerous magnetic recording challenges associated with developing hard disk drives of this size. The 4GB Microdrive is expected to be available in the Fall of 2003."
I was beginning to think the development of the microdrive had been abandoned. Nothing much has happened since the 1GB drive was released in 2000. It uses so-called Pixie Dust, which IBM developed last year. Hitachi and IBM have pooled their hard drive technologies into a joint venture under the Hitachi name.
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01-06-2003, 03:53 PM
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Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 10,981
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4 GB MicroDrive!!! I think I just wet myself.  ops:
I wonder how this will impact battery life....
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01-06-2003, 04:08 PM
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Swami
Join Date: May 2004
Posts: 4,396
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What About PC Card Drives?
Let's hope we also see larger PC Card drives. The Toshiba 5 GB has been out for a long time.
Yes, maybe not many people have PC Card capabilities on their Pocket PCs, but almost all laptops have them, and my 20 GB drive is getting full. Putting all of my MP3 and MPEG files on a drive I could share with my iPAQ 3870 would be great. :-)
Steve
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01-06-2003, 04:53 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Jan 2003
Posts: 14
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I'm going to sound like a very ignorant muppet here...
So much so I've figured it out, sorry people.
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01-06-2003, 04:53 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Sep 2002
Posts: 405
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I've heard numerous bad remarks with the 1gb Microdrive, for ex., too much battery consumption, skipping, less stable, etc etc. This is one of the reasons I am looking for a 512mb CF Card atm.
Ed, do you think this will plague the 4gb Microdrive as well?
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01-06-2003, 05:01 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Jan 2004
Posts: 63
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Okay, I was going to switch completely over to SD, but since there's no SDIO and now a humongous microdrive I guess I have no choice but to stay with my current mixture of CF and SD. Now I just have to decide which device I'm going to stick to (since this basically rules out the sleek 1910 and the convenient T-Mobile PPCPE).
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01-06-2003, 05:07 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Jul 2002
Posts: 433
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well, cpacity problem now might be 4 GB but how about the power consumption, getting lesser or consume even more ?
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01-06-2003, 05:39 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Dec 2002
Posts: 131
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Don't care
Well, I hope it will be a good card, which doesn't drain so much power as the 1GB. But I think it's great that we will get more memory. I'm curious about the price though... :?
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01-06-2003, 06:12 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Mar 2002
Posts: 248
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1 GB
I have the one gig drive and jog with it. I don;t have any skkipping problems. Moreover, since abandoning my 3630 for a 3955 I have no issues with battery life. Personally, I find the price tag of $225 for 1 Gb too good to pass up. 4 gb is nice but I too am curious as to what the price will be.
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01-06-2003, 06:16 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 29
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Speed?
Are the moicrodrives as fast as CF cards? I think I heard somewhere that they are slower. Would this pose any problems to movie viewing? I asssume the 4GB would be even slower than the 1GB ? ? ?
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