I'm about to receive a 4GB Hitachi Microdrive to fiddle around with.
I was tempted to install an OS onto it until I read up on the limitations.
Has anyone tried actively running portable apps from one of these babies?
I have a 4GB Sandisk Cruzer Micro that I'll be comparing it to.
Although they are by no means in competition, it would serve as an interesting comparison.
Hitachi Microdrive:
Data buffer: (KB) 128
Rotational speed (rpm): 3600
Latency (average ms): 8.33
Media transfer rate (max. Mbits/sec): 57.1 - 97.9
Interface transfer rate (max. MB/sec)2: 33
Sustained data rate (MB/sec): 4.3 - 7.2
Seek time (read, typical) Average (ms): 12
Track to track (ms): 1
Full track (ms): 22
Error rate (non-recoverable):
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My wife has an older 1gb IBM-branded CF drive that she uses with her Fuji digital camera. It works fine with Portable Apps. I haven't done any performance comparisons.
I have a 4 and 6 GB Micro Drive.
PortableApps runs just fine on them although noticeably (read significantly) slower than a flash/thumb drive.
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Luckily the drive was cheap.
Thanks for the feedback!