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They weren’t around for that long, but IBM’s microdrive had a major impact on multiple industries.
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0:00 Intro
1:15 Back in the 1990s, Compact Flash was born…
2:30 … But it was REALLY expensive and REALLY small.
3:02 Enter the Microdrive – Digital media suddenly got affordable
3:58 It’s literally a tiny hard drive that holds thousands of photos
5:03 Way less expensive than flash and 4x bigger! But slow…
6:21 Competition heated up – Surely this was the future?
7:21 iPods and MP3 players got smaller thanks to Microdrive
8:45 And then flash caught up
9:50 Let’s open one up and peek inside
12:29 Conclusion – The right tech at the right time
Deals for Days. Big home savings are happening now.
I still have the 1 GB drive – it is still operational – was even in sea water – the camera died – the drive not
I bought a ton of those drives. Loved them.
Man! things you guys find…!
Let’s appreciate the 99 Best Buy “all turn your computers off “ sign 😂😂
First Microdrive? Try the Sinclair ZX Specturm Microdrive. 🙂
When you said you were gonna do a video on these I thought "how do you even make a whole video on that?"
I see now
I still use the microdrives with CF/IDE adapters in retro computers, mainly Amiga on some machines to have a faint HDD sound 😅
Thousands or even hundreds of files? Man that seems like a lot 😲
Now I want one of them opened up, sealed in a thin layer of resin, and on my key fob.
If I remember right, Seiko help to build the first microdrive.
PCMCIA actually stands for People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms
can you please make me a Intel Extreme Tech Upgrade please
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In 2004, the 4GB Microdrive costed $500 USD. However, you could buy Creative MuVo 2 for $200, which contained the very same drive. Needless to say, word got out quickly in the photographer community, and the MuVo 2 remained out of stock for months.
Ooooo this one performed worse than other vids
I had one in a MP3 player, unfortunately it didn't last more than a year or so… hard drive failed.
Let's not forget Nokia N91. The first (and only?) phone with a hard drive.
Holy crap, I had that giant thing from Creative you showed at the end. I've been wondering off and on over the years what it was called. It was so cringe, the size of a discman, but insanely HEAVY. I think it had a full fat 3,5" drive inside.
should test one out of the ipod classic 160gb
Perhaps you could encase the exposed assembly in clear resin and actually make it a keychain thingy?
Anyone else stressed with how he keeps flicking the mechanical drives back and forth in his hand?
Birthday today sadly i fell sick😭 Care to hit me up with a pc
Amazon has one of those Compact drives that is 1GB for $228 which is just crazy lol
You can actually use these as a hdd alternative in retro Computers
Frog
I still have my Casio QV-2300UX camera which I bought as a bundle with the 340mb microdrive. They both still work and costed me 800 gulden (€363) for the camera and 400 gulden (€181) for the microdrive
It’s not TINY it’s Average size
LTT micro drive key chains with moving bits when?
That is mind blowing tech for the time!!
i really want that as a keychain now
Wait a whole decade is that true? I definitely used a Sony Mavica that took both floppy and memory stick!
Wait, so is it spun or span?
That drive looks pretty average to me
Oh you just gave me a cowon iAudio 7 flashback. I listened the shit out of it back at the time
Just got a microdrive for my MobilePro 900 and the thing is adorable!
My iPod Mini 2nd gen still worked when I upgraded to a CF to SD adapter, the transfer speeds always were below 6 MB/s and given how iTunes syncs the libraries as I grew more conscious about music quality with better audio gear transfers started taking more time (not to mention that I had to cherry-pick the tracks I liked more to not exceed the 2.5 GB) the old HDD had all of its bad blocks at the end and filling it past 2.5 GB the iPod would just hang and bootloop until restored, is amazing seeing how such and old device can transfer up to 17 MB/s, the interface aged well deffinitely and the little fella will take whatever you throw at it, addressed a whole 512 GB card like a champ
this sounds dumb but you guys should overclock a hard drive
This just reminds me, my first 4GB micro SD card set me back about $80.
3:08 I hadn't seen that image icon in decades! <3
Sick dunk on Creative but man I miss my Zen
Days and days and days of music and a screen you could tolerably watch movies and TV on. Like it wasn’t anything spectacularly innovative but it was executed extremely well. Good times.
I actually have a broken one somewhere in my room, my dad was an amateur photographer in the 90s to early 2000s. Makes a little rattle noise when it’s moved lol. I think it’s beyond saving but I wish I could.
I instantly went on ebay to buy one. Fill it with epoxy, drill a hole in the corner and you have an awesome keychain.
man, reminds me of the odball 1.8" hdd I had in an old sony laptop I had.
"2nd generation microdrive" is a perfectly good name. Beats "USB 3.2 Gen 2×2" and day.
I wonder what the capacity of one of these could be using modern tech and manufacturing methods.
I still have the IBM Microdrive from my first digital camera. A whole 1Gb of storage!
More "old tech" please. Just seems like last week for me.