Comment on Miniature Hard Drives
Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 1 week ago
I have one of the original IBM Microdrives, the 340MB version, sitting here on my desk. Hmm I wonder if I can find anything with a PCMCIA slot to test if this still works?
Comment on Miniature Hard Drives
Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 1 week ago
I have one of the original IBM Microdrives, the 340MB version, sitting here on my desk. Hmm I wonder if I can find anything with a PCMCIA slot to test if this still works?
billwashere@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Yeah I had a camera back in the day that had one of these. I thought it was the shit.
No we have 1.5 TB MicroSD … which is 4600 of those 340mb drives…. this makes my brain hurt. And that camera is only about 20 years old.
Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 1 week ago
Haha yeah storage capacity just keeps going up fast. Now that you mention it, I do recall the performance on these drives was supposed to be just absolute crap, but it was a massive innovation before chip storage came out. And some day the next big thing will be released and we’ll wonder how we put up with SSD drives.