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Microdrive

The Microdrive was a miniature, one-inch hard disk drive released in 1998 by IBM. The idea was originally created in 1992 by Timothy J. Riley and Thomas R. Albrecht at the Almaden Research Center in San Jose. A team of engineers and designers at IBM's Fujisawa, Japan facility helped make the creation of the drive possible.

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Capacity
170 MB - 8 GB
Developed by
Timothy J. Riley, Thomas R. Albrecht, IBM Fujisawa
Dimensions
42.0 mm × 36.0 mm × 5.0 mm
Discontinued
2012
Encoding
RLL
Manufactured by
IBM, Hitachi

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Microdrive

Nodes41
Edges40
Triples176
Avg. degree1.95
Density0.04878
Components1

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related to Development · 21
Microdrive → Albrecht, Almaden Research Center, Bill Healey, He, Hideya Ino, IBM, IBM Fujisawa, Japan, John Osterhout, Kenji Kuroki, Microelectromechanical, Micromechanics, Mitsuhiko Aoyagi, Originally Reiley, Reiley, San Jose, The, Thomas, Those, Timothy
related to GS Magicstor · 14
Microdrive → Chinese, GB, GS Magic, GS Magic Inc, GS Magicstor, HDD, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, Hitachi GST's, Inc, International CES, It, On December, On July, Riospring
related to Precursor · 12
Microdrive → AT, Citizen Watch, Disk Memory Division, Hewlett Packard, HP, HP Kittyhawk In June, In, It, Kittyhawk, Main Article, MB, The Kittyhawk
related to Second Generation · 12
Microdrive → CompactFlash, GB, IBM, It, June, MB, MB Microdrive, RPM, The, The Microdrive, These, They
related to Western Digital · 12
Microdrive → GB, In, March, MB, Passport Pocket, RPM, Seagate Pocket Hard Drive, The, These, This, USB, Western Digital
related to Hitachi Merge · 11
Microdrive → February, Following, GB, Hitachi, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, Hitachi HDD, IBM, In, Mikey, The, This
related to Seagate · 11
Microdrive → CompactFlash, GB, IBM Microdrive, In, Main Article, Pocket Hard Drive, Seagate, Seagate ST1, Seagate ST1 In, These, USB
related to Announcement/Launch · 10
Microdrive → AA, Another, CompactFlash, IBM, In September, It, One, Sanyo, The Microdrive, VGA-quality
related to Samsung · 9
Microdrive → At, Doing, GB, II, JVC's Everio GZ-MG73, Samsung, Samsung Spinpoint A1, Samsung's, They
related to Discontinuation · 8
Microdrive → As, By, CompactFlash, Hitachi, July, Microdrives, Sales, September

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drive hard disk compactflash ibm drives gb capacity hitachi microdrives storage flash time seagate also would announced devices 1-inch used

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
MicrodriveCapacity170 MB - 8 GB1.00infobox
MicrodriveDeveloped byTimothy J. Riley, Thomas R. Albrecht, IBM Fujisawa1.00infobox
MicrodriveDimensions42.0 mm × 36.0 mm × 5.0 mm1.00infobox
MicrodriveDiscontinued20121.00infobox
MicrodriveEncodingRLL1.00infobox
MicrodriveManufactured byIBM, Hitachi1.00infobox
MicrodriveMedia typeHard disk drive1.00infobox
MicrodriveReleasedSeptember 9, 19981.00infobox
MicrodriveUsagePortable audio players, Notebook computers, PDAs, Digital cameras1.00infobox
CompactFlashinstance ofminiature hard disk drives were being viewed as obsolete with flash media0.80text
SDinstance ofminiature hard disk drives were being viewed as obsolete with flash media0.80text
and USB flash surpassing them in speedinstance ofminiature hard disk drives were being viewed as obsolete with flash media0.80text

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