IBM Microdrives?

[Lord Gwynz]

Are these things really micro harddrives, you know with actual moving mechanical parts or are they just a more advanced version of the regular compactflash ram cards? I notice IBM already has the 1 gig microdrives out, will they work in any of today's pda/pocketpc units? And reason why I ask about the microdrives is because I'm wondering how durable those things are, can they be tossed around like regular compactflash cards?

 

[Warrenton]

they are regular disk drives. With moving parts and everything. I don't know if they work in compactflash devices. I wish they did, great for my digital camera.

 

[Vegito]

I saw one at the store.. MicroDrive CF are CF Type II, my camera doesn't support CF II, I does look a little bigger. I saw it at Best Buy so you can go check it out.

Canon camer supports Type II and also Rio 600 supposely has the Type II for the 340MB Microdrive +

 

[Spook]

I saw that to for the RIO... Of course, I also heard it sucks batteries like there's no tomorrow... But, that would be great 1G of music in a portable player... I wonder how durable these drives are??? Can you go jogging with a portable MP3 player with one of these drives?

 

[Rickr]

A friend of mine uses one of those in his Casio Windows CE palm computer. It lets him store a ton of MP3's. It does use a lot of battery power, though.

 

[JPT]

I have one on my Canon S10 and it is awesome! I have been taking pictures for weeks now and the indicator still says I have 999 left (>1000 cannot count). As for batteries, I did not notice a big difference between this and the CF I...