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Gear / Technical Help => Recording Gear => Topic started by: seethreepo on March 17, 2004, 12:15:07 PM
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http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/ptech/03/16/toshiba.record.reut/index.html
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sweet...bet they'll be pretty pricey though!
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Damn...four gigs on a drive the size of a quarter? "No, that's not a recording device; that's my keychain". ;D
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Imagine a VW microbus full of these things hauling down Route 80 at 65 MPH.
If the bus carries 250,000 of these at 4 GB each, what is the comparative bandwith to a T1 data connection ?
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Imagine a VW microbus full of these things hauling down Route 80 at 65 MPH.
If the bus carries 250,000 of these at 4 GB each, what is the comparative bandwith to a T1 data connection ?
Depends on how far it's going. I know you were being crazy but you can't convert miles into kilobytes ;).
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the HD in the iPods is built by Toshiba. I dunno why but that humors me. :)
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stealth what?
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I dunno, I'm only semi-impressed. I wanna see some solid-state drives that hold that much stuff. They're already tiny, and they're a lot safer than tiny hard drives with moving parts. I'd trust a 2gb flash card in my camera over a 2gb microdrive any day.
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Imagine a VW microbus full of these things hauling down Route 80 at 65 MPH.
If the bus carries 250,000 of these at 4 GB each, what is the comparative bandwith to a T1 data connection ?
Depends on how far it's going. I know you were being crazy but you can't convert miles into kilobytes ;).
At 65mph carrying 1000Tb of data, you can travel 3.67x10^7 miles above 500kbps, which is about what a T1 does ;)
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I dunno, I'm only semi-impressed. I wanna see some solid-state drives that hold that much stuff. They're already tiny, and they're a lot safer than tiny hard drives with moving parts. I'd trust a 2gb flash card in my camera over a 2gb microdrive any day.
Ditto...
Alot of people on the photo boards get suicidal when these microdrives die. I mean, it's one thing to lose a concert that you can usually get from someone else, entirely another to blow a wedding or once in a lifetime event.
Elana - what kind of digicam do you shoot with?
Haven't seen the tech specs on toshiba's site regarding this drive. And for those of us drooooling for a Fostex FR-2, it doesn't solve the 4-5GB available media limit that comprises the upper end of what's currently available. I'm checking a couple of PCMCIA OEM's to see if one the the 2.8" 20/40GB Hitachi Travelstars' can be shoehorned onto an ATA CardBus card.
Rick
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My company uses Compact Flash cards in our digital cameras to shoot photos for our magazines. We've been relying on CF Microdrives for a while, but recently have moved over to solid state as it tends to be faster and has lower power demands. We have had a couple of people get their microdrvies wet and had to send them out to data recovery services ($$$). A wet CF card just needs to dry out. Hell, I've run a flash card through a full wash cycle and had it come out working fine with all the data on it OK.
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Awesome...at least its a step in the right direction regading size vs. disk size.
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I dunno, I'm only semi-impressed. I wanna see some solid-state drives that hold that much stuff. They're already tiny, and they're a lot safer than tiny hard drives with moving parts. I'd trust a 2gb flash card in my camera over a 2gb microdrive any day.
Ditto...
Alot of people on the photo boards get suicidal when these microdrives die. I mean, it's one thing to lose a concert that you can usually get from someone else, entirely another to blow a wedding or once in a lifetime event.
Elana - what kind of digicam do you shoot with?
Haven't seen the tech specs on toshiba's site regarding this drive. And for those of us drooooling for a Fostex FR-2, it doesn't solve the 4-5GB available media limit that comprises the upper end of what's currently available. I'm checking a couple of PCMCIA OEM's to see if one the the 2.8" 20/40GB Hitachi Travelstars' can be shoehorned onto an ATA CardBus card.
Rick
I actually don't have a digicam at all :/ But if I did, I'd rather a 2gb flash card over a 2gb microdrive, that's for sure.
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I actually don't have a digicam at all :/ But if I did, I'd rather a 2gb flash card over a 2gb microdrive, that's for sure.
Definitely. I would be paranoid about reliabilty of one of those things. Glad I have one that uses SD cards :).