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Summary: Microdrive is generally used as a household name for a compact flash drive, but it also describes the basic circuitry inside a processor. Find out how microdrives control the flow of information through a processor with help from a computer and network administration specialist in this free video on microdrives.
"Hello my name is Mark and today I'm going to answer some of the questions about what does microdrive mean. The basic circuitry inside the processor that controls the flow of information through a processor. And it varies greatly from architecture to architecture but basically what it will do is it will take the information and process the information for a one inch hard disk form factor that fits into the compact flash or CF, the slot 2 specifically. Microdrive is now used more like a generalized household name for the compact flash but the original trademark was from IBM. And that's what is the microdrive."
eHow Article: What Does Microdrive Mean?