Thursday, February 24, 2005
Hitachi (And Seagate) Now Shipping 6GB Microdrives
Posted by Janak Parekh in "NEWS" @ 09:00 PM
"With 6 GB, the new Microdrive lets consumers carry even more of what they love – 1500-3000 songs, 6,000 pictures (1 MB each) or 8 hours of MPEG-4 video. Hitachi is making all this possible, now, at a significant price reduction, retailing the 6 GB Microdrive for $299 USD or pennies per megabyte. Hitachi's new suggested retail pricing represents the best value of capacity, reliability and performance at a price point that's affordable to virtually all owners of consumer devices. The Microdrive 3K6 is available in removable Compact Flash Type II and embedded versions."
Seagate is also shipping a 6GB drive, but only to select OEMs. Seeing as how you can now get a 4GB CompactFlash for about $275, this no longer excites me quite so much. That said, if you need the absolute top capacity CF solution for your Pocket PC at a decent price (6GB CF is still around $650), it looks like this will be available at retail shortly.
Seagate is also shipping a 6GB drive, but only to select OEMs. Seeing as how you can now get a 4GB CompactFlash for about $275, this no longer excites me quite so much. That said, if you need the absolute top capacity CF solution for your Pocket PC at a decent price (6GB CF is still around $650), it looks like this will be available at retail shortly.
