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IBM microdrive

IBM microdrive
Sunday July 01, 2001
Written by Staff Writers
Tags: IBM | microdrive
AUD
$968
Price at time of review.
Mobile storage
With the high cost of removable flash memory disproportional to the demand for mobile storage, IBM has hit a sweet spot with its incredible microdrive. Designed to Type II CompactFlash specifications, the microdrive is physically a hard drive jammed into a package about the size of a teabag and 5mm thick. Along with a PC Card adaptor, the microdrive endows its host devices - any device with a Type II PC Card slot or Type II CompactFlash card slot - with a 340Mb capacity, and in the near future, 1Gb. Unrivalled cost per megabyte and cleverly implemented.


This article appeared in the July, 2001 issue of PC Authority.
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