IBM 1GB Microdrive Review

A reader writes "MP3 Newswire has run a very good review on the 1GB version of IBM's Microdrive. One major improvement the higher-capacity Microdrive has over the older 340MB drive is that it consumes less power (the older drives sucked up the juice). The article covers the normal ins and outs of the product, but also touches on the future. Because flash cards and other competing storage media this small havent reached the 1GB plateau (yet) these drives are good enough to steal a large slice of the MP3 player/PDA/Digital Camera pie by simply slashing prices to allow, say, a tiny 1GB MP3 portable for under $250. "

Comments

Lots of storage

[Anonymous Coward]

Yea! Eventually we can do longer pr0n shoots with 1GB-capable digital cameras.

Small expensive things are always bad (Re:Humm...)

[Tsar]

Small expensive things are always bad.

That's exactly how I explained it to my fiancé—she didn't buy it either.

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Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these! You could fit 80GB into the space of a... oh, never mind.

Re:Moores Law

[rtaylor]

s/TRANSISTERS/transistor density/

Can't believe it. Two mistakes, one word. Talk about dense...

Re:They work well but are pretty fragile

[Saeger]

Do you photography geeks still insist that traditional film is somehow better than digital?

(If you need to make your photo "grainy" or otherwise "shitty looking", photoshop can do that. Though there's some other lens artifacts, like bokeh(sp?), that are just best forgotten.)

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Batteries bigger than the disk drive....

[billstewart]

Sigh. It's getting to be like that old joke about the Soviet digital watch (from back when digital watches were still cool) - solid, brightly lit, but carrying around the car battery to keep it running took half the fun out of it.