09-06-2005, 07:00 PM
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Developer & Designer, News Editor Emeritus
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Hitachi's Mikey MicroDrive (3K8) - The New Bling!
"While the ultimate fashion accessory of recent popular culture is flashy jewellery � known by its street name "bling" � Hitachi Global Storage Technologies is today saying high-capacity, miniature hard drives are the new "bling" for their ubiquity and desirability among the consumer digerati (see "Hard Drive is the New Bling" video). Hitachi�s latest "bling" are the industry's smallest one-inch and lightest 1.8-inch hard drive, introduced in concept earlier this year under the monikers Mikey and Slim. Hitachi anticipates these two hard drives will play key roles in the emergence of high-capacity smart phones, multi-function audio/video players and other handheld consumer devices. CE manufacturers across these segments have already designed Mikey and Slim into prototype consumer devices, the earliest of which are expected out this year."
Hitachi's Mikey MicroDrive will soon be available in 6GB and 8GB flavours, being 20% smaller in size and requiring 40% less power than its predecessors. It also sports a CE-ATA interface and ESP technology (allowing the 3K8 a 2000G tolerance). Of prime importance is Hitachi's promotion of the 3K8 as the "new bling", so check it out y'all! 
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09-06-2005, 07:14 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Jan 2005
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How will it be to have one of these in the HTC Universal :mrgreen:
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09-06-2005, 08:17 PM
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I think with the release of 4GB SD cards, the thunder of this release is somewhat muted.
With 2GB cards being readily available for about $135 and being resistant to almost any kind of damage adn probably have superior read/write speed, are microdrives relevant anymore?
If these were 20GB microdrives, then I can see reason to get excited. Otherwise, I'll stick with my SDs!
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09-06-2005, 08:53 PM
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Theorist
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Originally Posted by ricksfiona
I think with the release of 4GB SD cards, the thunder of this release is somewhat muted.
With 2GB cards being readily available for about $135 and being resistant to almost any kind of damage adn probably have superior read/write speed, are microdrives relevant anymore?
If these were 20GB microdrives, then I can see reason to get excited. Otherwise, I'll stick with my SDs!
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Not to mention their increased power requirement.
I suppose it all comes down to price. How much is one of these babies?
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09-07-2005, 11:29 AM
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Developer & Designer, News Editor Emeritus
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I agree. I'll soon be posting on a new MMC card, and for what it's worth, I think the thunder goes there.
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09-07-2005, 03:27 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Mar 2005
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*yawn* wake me up when we hit 20.
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09-07-2005, 04:48 PM
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Ponderer
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I hope they do something to improve the reliability. I'm on my second micro drive in 2 years and it's already starting to make un-happy noises.
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09-07-2005, 05:43 PM
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Pontificator
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Let's see... little spinny thingy prone to read/write head impacts on the platter(s) if bumped... or much, much littler non-spinny thing proven again and again to withstand washing machines, getting sat on in back pockets... Hard choice? Not. Given that the new high-capacity MMC cards are going to be dirt cheap, and that a dozen or so can fit into the space of a single CF card, these hard drives are too little (capacity) and too late. Sure, they'll appear as hardwired components in phones and MP3 players, but forget about much in the way of accessory sales as 'bling.' How about gold plating a fistful of 2GB MMCs, drilling holes in the corners, and hanging them on a gold chain? Now we talkin', biatch.
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09-08-2005, 02:54 AM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Apr 2004
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man you guys sure knock the wind out of venture capitalist.... 0X
but with the current market for solid state media, it's a surprise these things are still persued. 0X
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09-08-2005, 09:12 AM
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Oracle
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Kinda interesting to carry this discussion in parallel with the "bigger" discussion centering on iPod Nano (flash) vs. the iPod Mini (HDD) that it replaces 
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