Another view of the microdrive. The microdrives from Hitachi, seen here, contain platters that measure 1-inch across, while Toshiba has shrunk this to 0.85 inches. But neither company says it has plans to shrink platters further. Instead, they will work on reliability and increasing density through technologies such as perpendicular recording.
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