Monday, March 3, 2003
4 GB Microdrives Coming This Fall
Posted by Jason Dunn in "NEWS" @ 10:55 PM
I found this tiny quote in an article about digital cameras:
"Hitachi recently said its Microdrive would jump to 4GB in capacity but isn't expected to ship until fall."
That's the first confirmation I've seen about the Microdrive since IBM sold it to Hitachi. I don't know about you, but 4 GB late this year just doesn't seem like a lot of space...unless it's priced very low. I'm not eager to buy another Microdrive - I paid $650 CND for mine about two years ago, and as amazing as it was at the time, it went flaky on me two months after the warranty expired. It now makes a strange clicking noise when I try to do a sector scan.
I remain convinced that solid-state memory is the future of storage, not spinning platters of metal, especially when it comes to mobile devices.
"Hitachi recently said its Microdrive would jump to 4GB in capacity but isn't expected to ship until fall."
That's the first confirmation I've seen about the Microdrive since IBM sold it to Hitachi. I don't know about you, but 4 GB late this year just doesn't seem like a lot of space...unless it's priced very low. I'm not eager to buy another Microdrive - I paid $650 CND for mine about two years ago, and as amazing as it was at the time, it went flaky on me two months after the warranty expired. It now makes a strange clicking noise when I try to do a sector scan.
I remain convinced that solid-state memory is the future of storage, not spinning platters of metal, especially when it comes to mobile devices.
