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MicrodriveAn ultra-miniature hard disk from Hitachi Global Systems. The Microdrive was developed and introduced by IBM in 1998 and acquired by Hitachi in 2002. The Microdrive uses a single platter the size of an American quarter that holds up to 8GB. Using one or two GMR heads, the entire mechanism is built into a Type II CompactFlash form factor.
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It captures images, sound and stills not onto tape, but into a Microdrive hard-disk, which is cleverly located, alongside the battery, in the unit's adjustable-angle handgrip. The microdrive can store the most video footage, obviously, slipping into the CF slot and giving owners 15 minutes and 9 seconds' worth of 30fps video with its 1GB capacity. Along with PAKit Pro, In-System Design (ISD) has also introduced the PAKit Reader, shirt-pocket sized personal data management devices using IBM Microdrives or CompactFlash memory cards. |
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