Microdrive

Developed by IBM and available in 1999, the microdrives are extremely small-sized hard disks that can fit in a CompactCard memory slot. Two drive capacities will be available 170 MB and 340MB, enabling digital cameras designed to use CompactFlash memory cards to gain large storage capabilities. This is particularly useful for camera models that are able to store uncompressed images, since these images require a large amount of storage. (See Memory Card).

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