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16th Jun 2005, 10:26
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Geoff Richards
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Microdrive capacities soar
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16th Jun 2005, 10:53
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16th Jun 2005, 11:26
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I thought I had a big one when I upgraded to a 1GB microdrive....
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16th Jun 2005, 12:34
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At least now they can make mp3 players smaller in size but just as big in capacity
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16th Jun 2005, 13:48
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You raise an interesting point: having 8GB may be all well & good, but what is the transfer rate on these things? How long would it take to fill it with music?
On the flip side, if you have a dSLR and you're just snappy snap snapping away, it's gonna be a bit of a downer to have to transfer all that data to your PC... which would fill up fairly quickly if you did that every week or more
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16th Jun 2005, 13:54
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well there so small RAID em
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16th Jun 2005, 14:26
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Brett Thomas
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Heh...Raid 5 arrays built off of 8gb micro drives. That could be interesting.
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16th Jun 2005, 14:39
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awww look how cute it is
 
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16th Jun 2005, 14:54
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I wonder how fast they are in comparison to a normal 7200rpm HDD?
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16th Jun 2005, 15:01
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The areal density is there... I read the 8GB Seagate is 3,600RPM, but I couldn't confirm that on seagate.com
The real question is whether you would max out your USB2.0 - *probably* not, depending on what else you had plugged in at the same time. IF it were able to sustain 5MB/sec, it would take 26 minutes to transfer 8GB... |
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16th Jun 2005, 15:31
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I wanna know what happened to solid state hard disk technology, now that's speed worth waiting for
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16th Jun 2005, 19:05
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If you think that is cool, how about 30Gb of storage on a £1,-- credit-card sized hologram?
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/73773/ch...ext-year.html# The readers/writers are still a bit pricey, but that is bound to come down as quickly as DVD-RAM writers did...
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16th Jun 2005, 19:11
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Why not? I own a domain to match.
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Normal 7200RPM hard drives won't fill USB2.0 which is 60MB (480Mb) per second.
/meh that was supposed to quote The_Pope
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16th Jun 2005, 20:01
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Nexxo, do you have any idea on the transfer speed of that? I'm looking, but can't find any info.
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16th Jun 2005, 22:32
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"the HVD Alliance is anticipating discs storing multiple terabytes of data, written at a rate of 1Gbit/sec." |
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17th Jun 2005, 00:33
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