Removable memory Planet : How small is it going to be?

Today removable memory planet will talk about trends, one of the common trends in removable memory is to make the physical package smaller and smaller while increasing the amount of data that can be stored.

Magnetic storage is moving in two parallel directions. There are products coming out that use small cartridges with capacity measured in megabytes, and there are portable hard drives that range in the gigabytes.

One company has introduced a micro-optical drive. This tiny drive, about the size of a matchbox, uses tiny optical discs that are encased in a plastic shell. Each disc is capable of holding 500 MB of information. The drive actually reads both sides of the disc, meaning that the disc stores 250 MB per side.




Removable memory planet : Tiny Optical Discs



For the solid-stage storage Smart Media and Compact Flash cards continue to increase in capacity while maintaining their tiny size. Other solid-state memory devices, such as Sony's Memory Stick, are even smaller.

Removable memory planet : Compact Flash card


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