World's Smallest Hard Drive 30
Rogue_F writes "Always thought your digital camera, or PDA never
had enough storage space for your needs? IBM may
have solved this problem with their new
microdrives.
They may end up being too fragile and expensive, but
just think of the degree of coolness it adds to
something like Itsy
Good things come in little packages
" 340 megs in an inch? Smooth.
Tiny HDs (Score:1)
Not bad (Score:1)
Micro Drive (Score:1)
Wearables... (Score:1)
Tiny Hard Drives (Score:1)
--E. Charles Plant
Use 'em in servers (Score:1)
MP3's (Score:1)
Compact Flash Type II (Score:1)
Sounds good.. 372 MB of MP3s running on a single AA battery.
Compact Flash Type II (Score:1)
According to the RIO manual, it takes Compact Flash memory, is Type II bigger? I see that it has pins, almost like a ribbon cable.
The flash memory standards are horribly confused.
History !!!!! (Score:1)
CFA is IDE (Score:1)
For those who are wondering, the CompactFlash interface is just IDE, but smaller. So yes, you could wire one of these to the JumpTec DIMM-PC and put some real storage on a tiny web server.
CompactFlash Types I and II are 3.3 and 5 mm thick respectively, just like PC-MCIA types I and II. You can get PC-MCIA cards which they slot into.
Flash-memory CompactFlash cards come in all sizes up to about 128 MB. Apparently digital cameras usually put a FAT filesystem on their cards.
Ahh, now I can hack a Furbee... (Score:1)
Woah this is old. (Score:1)
This was posted MANY months ago right here on slashdot.
However, being a big PDA user, it is nice to relive it. *grin*. 340MB in a CF form factor will rock with CE 2.11 that plays MP3's. Every CE device will become a RIO!
Bright colors (Score:1)
Finally, I fell in a heap on the ground. I've no idea who left it there.
--Neddie Segoon [Harry Secombe], The Goons: "Dishonoured"
almost missed it. (Score:1)
No chance (Score:1)
I made the same mistake when I bought mine, but I can't return it now...
Great, I need one for my HP Graphing Calculator (Score:1)
Calculators
Watches
A Mouse that can boot Linux
etc...
THE SINCLAIR SPECTRUM HAD MICRODRIVES FIRST!!! (Score:1)
Of course, Sinclair Microdrives were based on tape technology, and the cartriges were always breaking, and only stored a few hundred K if I remember rightly.... Guess Sinclair never trademarked the name? Although I note that IBM doesn't call them Microdrives(TM). Hmmm.
Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.
10GB (30 disks) raid device ! (Score:1)
disk (you probably need to concentrate all the logic parts somewhere)
and maybe:
- all simultanious access
- use one or two as a redundant storage
- using only one scsi connector/address
doesn't sounds bad at all !
oh, wel probably won't need it anyway.
Compact Flash Type II (Score:1)
CompactFlash II has the same footprint 1" x 1"
but is thicker(about 5.6mm).
If youre handy with a soldering iron you could swap out the connectors but I wouldnt recommend it