Microdrive - Microdrive Advantages

Microdrive Advantages

• Until 2006, Microdrives had higher capacity than CompactFlash cards.
• Microdrives allow more write cycles, making them suitable for use as swapspace in embedded applications.
• Microdrives might be better at handling power loss in the middle of writing. Flash storage always needs to move some old data around while writing, to ensure the flash's finite write life is consumed equally; if there were a bug in the wear levelling algorithm it could cause data loss if the card were unplugged at the exact wrong time. Data on a magnetic hard drive is modified in place, and hard drive algorithms have many years more experience and testing over Flash.