Flash Format (Handheld PC)
Downloads Flash Format is a full featured storage card management utility supporting all ATA and SD compliant storage devices, including Compact Flash cards, Secure Digital cards (SD), Multimedia cards (MMC), MicroDrives, MiniSD cards, etc.
[October 12, 2006, 13:22]
Flash Format 2.85 - Storage Card Management Utility
Downloads Flash Format is a full featured memory card management utility supporting all ATA and SD compliant storage devices, including Compact Flash cards, SD cards, Mini SD, Micro SD, Multimedia cards (MMC), MicroDrives, PCMCIA memory cards, SmartMedia...
[May 3, 2002, 8:00]
Hard-drive makers look to the middle ground
News Microdrives have landed inside some phones and video cameras, but mostly only in high-end models. Hardware makers began inserting microdrives into music players in 2003, and their popularity zoomed after Apple put one inside its iPod Mini in 2004.
[April 4, 2006, 10:25]
Flash Format 2.85 (German)
Downloads Das vollständige Werkzeug zur Verwaltung von SpeicherkartenFlash Format ist ein vollständiges Werkzeug zur Verwaltung von Speicherkarten, das alle ATA-kompatiblen Speichermedien unterstützt, einschließlich PCMCIA Speicherkarten, Compact Flash...
[October 12, 2001, 8:00]
Hitachi announces 3D hard-drive revolution
News Currently, microdrives top out at 6GB while servers with a terabyte of storage typically have several drives. Within five to seven years, increasing performance with perpendicular recording is likely to lead to microdrives with 60GB of storage...
[April 4, 2005, 9:30]
Flash Format
Downloads Flash Format is a full featured memory card management utility for Windows Mobile powered Pocket PC devices, supporting all ATA and SD compliant storage cards, including Compact Flash cards, SD cards, Mini SD, Micro SD, Multimedia cards (MMC...
[December 24, 2008, 6:11]
Antipiracy battle moves to hardware Pt II
News The group has created a technology called CPRM (Content Protection for Recordable Media) that would block certain types of files from being transferred to portable devices such as Zip drives, or microdrives, or the flash memory cards used in MP3...
[March 23, 2001, 14:09]
Toshiba unveils mini microdrive
News The capacity of the new drive is not yet known, but Hitachi and others currently sell 1-inch diameter hard drives (also known as microdrives) that can hold 1GB to 4GB of data. At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas next month, Toshiba will...
[December 11, 2003, 14:25]
Friday
Blog I came to those after struggling -- there is no other word -- with ZX Microdrives for a year. Friday 7/2/2003 So, farewell then, floppy disk. Dell is ditching the dinky data device from some of its top-end desktops, and the writing is clearly on...
[February 7, 2003, 17:02]
Fantstic Screen and good Keyboard
Member Review I have also heard of users putting their DVDs onto Microdrives and playing them (the screen and video playback are that good). This is a great PDA and it's a pity it isn't exported by Sharp. It requires more technical know-how than most other PDAs...
[October 27, 2004, 16:32]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Four-gigabyte Microdrives? Tuesday 23/09/2004 Jetlagged and jagged, I turn up at Waterloo Station to trek down to Havant, where a chunk of IBM has recently transmogrified into Hitachi Global Storage Technologies.
[September 26, 2003, 18:40]
Disk storage climbs perpendicularly
News Hitachi expects to have 60Gb microdrives -- ten times today’s capacity -- in the same time period. Perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) technology, which can make hard drives with up to ten times today’s capacity, will be widespread in 2007 and...
[June 27, 2005, 17:10]
Hardware safe from copy protection
News The group has said repeatedly that the technology is intended for portable drives, such as microdrives or the compact Flash memory used for such devices as MP3 players. Technology standards-makers on Monday voted against adding copy-protection...
[April 3, 2001, 10:53]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog I've posted the full file to comp.sys.sinclair (where a thriving community of Sinclairophile nutters live, in their own fashion) but here are some choice clips that might bring a smile to anyone who can remember the days of Microdrives and dead...
[October 29, 1999, 19:16]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News I've posted the full file to comp.sys.sinclair (where a thriving community of Sinclairophile nutters live, in their own fashion) but here are some choice clips that might bring a smile to anyone who can remember the days of Microdrives and dead...
[October 29, 1999, 18:16]
Start-up creates tiny hard drives for gadgets
News By contrast, existing standard 1-inch Microdrives from IBM sell for $219 at retail or more, while 1GB flash cards go for around $200. Cornice wants to take the hard drive out of PCs and put it into your camera.
[June 4, 2003, 7:28]
Fujitsu Siemens Pocket LOOX 600 review
Reviews Type II CompactFlash support means that IBM Microdrives -- currently available in capacities up to 1GB -- can be used with the Pocket LOOX 600. This is the top end as far as XScale is concerned, with Intel’s other chip in the range, the PXA210...
[July 3, 2002, 13:21]
Toshiba touts data density record with new drive
News The company also makes microdrives with 0.85-inch diameter platters. The Japanese electronics giant is coming out with a 2.5-inch drive for notebooks later this year with platters (the silver pancakes in a drive that hold data) that hold 178.8...
[June 5, 2006, 9:25]
