I spent $500 almost 2 years ago on a 1 gig microdrive. This is the third actual microdrive I am going through.I have had to RMA my last two microdrives. The first one lasted about 8 months before ...

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IBM plans to make a beefed-up tiny hard drive available later this month, targeting laptop users. The company's 4GB "Microdrive" is slated to be available Feb. 20, according to Big Blue's Web site ...

IBM's revved-up 1.0 GB Microdrive Travel Kit can boost your productivity and fun because of its tiny size and light weight, versatile compatibility with a wide range of devices, ...

This new microdrive would fit over 225(!) uncompressed pics, or several vacations worth of "normal" quality photos. For the professionals, the drive would fit about 70 uncompressed photos from a 6 ...

Studio 2f has a short and sweet illustrated howto on removing that Hitachi MicroDrive from the Creative MuVo. If getting an otherwise-$400 4GB Compact Flash MicroDrive for only $200 sounds like a ...

The ZX microdrive manual optimistically claims that each cartridge could hold 100 kB of data, but the reality was that they held about 85 kB rising to over 90 kB once they had stretched a little ...

This microdrive/compact flash reader has biometric fingerprint protection so your tasteful self-nudes will never be leaked out to the public—without your. Skip to content Search .

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Inc. (HGST) has begun shipping a new version of its 1-in. Microdrive, a hard disk drive that can hold 50% more data than HGST’s current highest-capacity model.

For the "digital imaging" category, the 6GB Hitachi Microdrive 3K6 emerged as victorious, which has lead Hitachi to declare that the mini hard drives are "A Girl's Best Friend" ...

Just when you thought the 1-inch microdrive format was dead and gone, along comes Samsung -- masters of flash memory, especially in portables -- with their own 3600RPM 30 and 40GB CompactFlash ...