About Microdrive
In pursuit of large capacity and small volume of new era, the flash disk storage) and traditional (big volume) are unable to meet the market demand. Ranging from notebook and digital camera field development over the top drive, take two years the baton.
Microdrive (micro) was first disk developed by IBM’s a super mini hard drives products. Its initial capacity for 340MB 512MB, now and there has 16GB, product capacity and 30GB etc. Compared with before, now reduces the hard disk rotational 4200rpm (to 3600rpm), reducing the consumption, but increased stability.
Can use most of CF card can be directly used mostly Microdrive equipment, such as digital cameras, handheld computers, MP3 player, etc. Notebook computer, through the PCMCIA adapter, because Microdrive slightly thicker than CF card, so need CFII accord with standard equipment, large capacity Microdrive number (4 gb) equipment support FAT32 file system. Compared with CF the biggest advantage is Microdrive, storage capacity of the unit price lower. Microdrive USES is the hard disk technology, low cost, high capacity can be using solid storage technology CunZhuQi substitutes.
Currently the kodak, sanyo, Fujitsu, epson corporation, has begun to design such use of digital cameras Microdrive support. For the foreseeable future, including digital camera or other computer peripherals, will join support in product Microdrive.
