Reply 80 of 121, by stamasd
I like to use microdrives in my retro computers. Somehow the fact that they use old school rotating platters and magnetic media makes them in my mind a better fit than CF cards. And even though I've used CF cards for many years I'm still doubtful as to their long-term potential for storage, I've seen catastrophic failures of cards where all the contents was lost at once (not that those don't happen with hard drives, mind you). Plus I have at least one system that doesn't play nice with CF cards (whatever CF card I use with it, it quickly accumulates many corrupt files even if all I do is read from it), but is very happy with microdrives.
So no, microdrives are far from useless as far as I'm concerned. I'm often looking for deals on them, as I need more.
I/O, I/O,
It's off to disk I go,
With a bit and a byte
And a read and a write,
I/O, I/O