2.2GB USB2.0 Mini Hard Drive (5cm x 5cm x 1cm) £29.99 inc del @Amazon

bingsy

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0007P5FKS/203-5429549-3068723

Considering it's size I guess this contains a compact flash type 2 card (IBM microdrive) mini hard drive (moving parts). Still good value but not as resiliant to knocks as a flash based thumb drive. Great price for 2.2 Gigabytes of portable storage.

[font=verdana, arial, helvetica][size=-1]Features[/size][/font]

• Smallest hard disk in the World
• Very compact design with dimensions: 5.1x 5 x 1 cm and weight: 26g
• Aluminium casing
• Capacity : 2.2GB capacity allowing you up to store 635 MP3 songs or 3 DivX movies!
• Ultra fast USB 2.0 interface: Very easy to use with a fast transfer rate
• No external power or battery needed
• Comes with pouch and USB cable

ehosin

That looks like a very good deal...
I was about to buy the 1GB SanDisk Cruzer USB pen drive...
but if I can get 1.2GB more for the same price...i'll go for this.

Thanks

captainsensible_3

Hope it's better quality than the IBM microdrive, I had one that failed, took it back, got it replaced, and that one failed too. It's not always a good thing to have moving parts me thinks.

Odd_Fellow

captainsensible wrote:

Hope it's better quality than the IBM microdrive, I had one that failed, took it back, got it replaced, and that one failed too. It's not always a good thing to have moving parts me thinks.

I've had a 1Gb microdrive in a professional Digital SLR for 18 months. It gets a lot of use and, being a camera, gets thrown about a lot more than a laptop would (I've never slung my laptop over my head suspended on a cord, for instance).

I have never had anything but 100% devoted service from it.

Toast_2

Sorry to ask a thick question, but my mates PC has less than 1gig hard drive so he cant do much with it.

Can he get one of these and it saves him getting a new hard drive put in?

Or does it not work like that?

TIA.

welshblob

Toast wrote:

Sorry to ask a thick question, but my mates PC has less than 1gig hard drive so he cant do much with it.

Can he get one of these and it saves him getting a new hard drive put in?

Or does it not work like that?

TIA.

Although some BIO's might allow you to boot off a USB device I wouldn't recommend it. Besides a new 40GB IDE HDD costs about the same as this and an 80GB one a few pounds more so theres not much point.
Rob

italiastar

Odd_Fellow wrote:

I've had a 1Gb microdrive in a professional Digital SLR for 18 months. It gets a lot of use and, being a camera, gets thrown about a lot more than a laptop would (I've never slung my laptop over my head suspended on a cord, for instance).

I have never had anything but 100% devoted service from it.

Microdrives are also used in I-pod mini's

Odd_Fellow

Toast wrote:

Sorry to ask a thick question, but my mates PC has less than 1gig hard drive so he cant do much with it.

Can he get one of these and it saves him getting a new hard drive put in?

Or does it not work like that?

TIA.

I reckon that any PC with less than 1Gb hd has gotta be really old. I'd question the value of spending £40 on it in this case as that's probably just about as much as the machine is worth in total.

Also, does it even have USB ports?

I have a Dell Dimension 450 here (used as a file server) that I bought in 1999. That had at least a 10Gb drive back then.

Also, following the point of the other poster, it's extremely unlikely that this machine would allow you to boot off of an external USB drive.

Probably best steer clear, imho.

chachi

thanks to the OP ... wifey wanted to 'borrow' my old 512mb, and had a £10 gc balance to use up so über bargain for us !

welshblob

Odd_Fellow wrote:

I reckon that any PC with less than 1Gb hd has gotta be really old. I'd question the value of spending £40 on it in this case as that's probably just about as much as the machine is worth in total.

Also, does it even have USB ports?

Good point, I'd tell their mate to hold out for a Dell deal or missprice on a new PC like I did :-). I'd doubt the BIOS would recognise a 40GB HDD either.

Rob

Poppycat

I wouldnt recommend these for camera, they are slow and arent as resilant as solid state devices. I have used a 4gb one in a high spec camera and it was utter crap.