iVDR

iVDR, or Information Versatile Disk for Removable usage, is a portable HDD cartridge standard.

The standard is managed by the iVDR Hard Disk Drive Consortium, which consists largely of Japanese corporations. It provides the benefits of HDD technology, while going against the trend of smaller storage formats. Transfer speeds are up to 1.5 Gbit/s over SATA. Size ranges from the larger iVDR (80 mm x 110 mm) to the smaller iVDR micro (50mm x 50mm). It was born of the increasing need for large-capacity media that can store increasing amounts of high-quality video and image data, high-quality audio data, and so on.^[1]

References

^ "It was born of the increasing need for large-capacity media that can store increasing amounts of high-quality video and image data, high-quality audio data, and so on". Hitachi Official website. A removable hard disk standardized by the iVDR Consortium. Compared with DVDs and Blu-ray Discs, iVDR features large storage capacity and high read/write speed. Moreover, since removing it from AV devices is easy, recorded contents can be readily carried about. In this manner, so long as a playback device that is compatible with iVDR is available, stored contents can be enjoyed whenever and wherever desired.

Sources

C|Net article
PC World article Retrieved from the Internet Archive on March 18, 2016.

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[1] "It was born of the increasing need for large-capacity media that can store increasing amounts of high-quality video and image data, high-quality audio data, and so on". Hitachi Official website. A removable hard disk standardized by the iVDR Consortium. Compared with DVDs and Blu-ray Discs, iVDR features large storage capacity and high read/write speed. Moreover, since removing it from AV devices is easy, recorded contents can be readily carried about. In this manner, so long as a playback device that is compatible with iVDR is available, stored contents can be enjoyed whenever and wherever desired.

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