http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/ptech/03/16/toshiba.record.reut/index.html
sweet...bet they'll be pretty pricey though!
Damn...four gigs on a drive the size of a quarter? "No, that's not a recording device; that's my keychain". ;D
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 ?
Quote from: BobW on March 17, 2004, 04:42:30 PM
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 ;).
the HD in the iPods is built by Toshiba. I dunno why but that humors me. :)
stealth what?
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.
Quote from: mgleason007 on March 17, 2004, 04:48:58 PM
Quote from: BobW on March 17, 2004, 04:42:30 PM
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 ;)
Quote from: Elana on March 21, 2004, 03:30:38 PM
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
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.
Awesome...at least its a step in the right direction regading size vs. disk size.
Quote from: sickrick43 on March 21, 2004, 07:15:52 PM
Quote from: Elana on March 21, 2004, 03:30:38 PM
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.
Quote from: Elana on March 22, 2004, 08:40:49 PM
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 :).