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To: gdichaz who wrote (65)	7/19/1999 12:26:00 AM
From: Scott C. Lemon	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 332

Hello gdichaz, > Not Flash disk from SanDisk? If not, why not? Or in reverse, why an > IBM moving disk for a handheld? Curious. Chaz I'm very impressed with SanDisk (wish I would have bought a month or so ago when I was looking at it!) and their product. The only reason that I have brought up the MicroDrive is capacity. Currently, I am unable to get 64MB flash for my MP3 players ... I know that is it supposed to be out this fall. But IBM is already shipping 170MB and 340MB MicroDrives. If you haven't looked at them, they are very small and very impressive ... ssdweb01.storage.ibm.com Scott C. Lemon

To: gdichaz who wrote (65)	7/19/1999 10:43:00 AM
From: Mark Oliver	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 332

IBM's mini drive is cool because it's got 5 to 10 times the capacity of flash in it's first product cycle. The medium will grow to much higher capacity, average is 60% areal density increased annually. They said they'd probably have the 350 meg drive down to $99 as soon as they got production to max efficiency. Even though is rotates, this drive has a pretty high g-shock rating. High enough that most other devices will also break before it hurts the hard drive. Also, it's really small. Able to fit into a slot as an add on device for most PDA's. It'll also work in video cameras as well ad still cameras. I thought this was an interesting device. A full Win 98 computer that is almost a PDA by it's nature. biz.yahoo.com Regards, Mark