Popular Micro Drives

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Micro Drives are one solution for cheap price and more storage.They can easily carry a huge amount of digital music, photos, videos, business files and computer games. They provide breakthrough value and storage capacity for small music players. They can be really a boon to “on demand” environment. Yesterday I wrote a post on How to choose a Micro Drive : Review Here is a list of micro drive you can choose from.


  • Seagate pocket drive [ 8Gb and 6Gb ] : This is a pocket sized mobile unit which can carry upto 2500 photos, 133 hrs of digital music, 8 hrs of Digital Video and 4 computer games. 8Gb costs around 150$ and 4Gb around 110$ USD.
  • Seagate Lyrion had drive: This s considered to be most intelligent and evolved of all micro drives. Lyrion is industry’ first single platter, 60GB, 1.8 GB hard drive.Smart because its enabled by perpendicular recording technology with only 5mm thickness. It can carry upto 200hrs of music, 20 hrs of standard definition video and 12 hrs of high definition video.
  • Hitachi Micro drive 38K ‘Mikey’: The 1 inch or 2.5 cm Mikey can store upto 4000 songs.Especially suitable for smart phones like N95. Its the first hard drive to give CE-ATA interface, according to Hitachi and consumes 40% less power. Its also safeguarded by Hitachi’s ESP or Extra Storage Protection.
  • Western Digital Passport Pocket Drives: The USB 2.0 enabled passport pocket drive is the size of match box and 1/3 in thickness and weighs only 1.6 ounces. It can store 6GB of data which means 1700 digital photos, 1500 digital music or thousands of document. It costs around 110$ USD

  • So next time you want to buy a micro drive keep a print out of this in pocket so you can deal with the shop in advance. Each drive has their own ability you can choose whichever choose you first

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