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Miniature Hard Drives

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Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨cm0002@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org⁩

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  • Mnem667@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I have one of those drives I pulled out of a Palm LifeDrive because it died.

    Really really neat to see the platter inside, and neat tech, but the CF card that replaced it was so much faster.

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  • Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?

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    • billwashere@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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      • Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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