{"id":4327,"date":"2008-07-01T12:07:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-01T10:07:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-07-01T12:07:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-01T10:07:00","slug":"smallest-flash-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/4327-smallest-flash-drive.html","title":{"rendered":"Smallest flash drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imation has released what it believes to be the smallest flash drive to date. The Atom flash drive is roughly the size of a paperclip at 3.8cm long and 1.27cm wide. <\/p>\n<p>The Atom includes password protection, partitioning software and Windows Vista ReadyBoost, which means the Atom can be used as caching memory to give computers a memory boost when plugged in.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Just as the atom refers to the smallest molecular particle, the Atom Flash Drive refers to the smallest portable storage device in our extensive portfolio,&quot; said Imation country manager Peter Welsh. &quot;Imation continues to demonstrate its channel leadership by introducing the data storage technology and small form factors that tech savvy professionals demand.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The Atom is available in storage capacities of between 1GB and 8GB of data. <\/p>\n<p>The mini flash drive doesn&#8217;t require any additional software to be used on Linux, Mac and Windows machines. <\/p>\n<p>The release of the Atom boosts Imation&#8217;s mini flash drive lineup which already includes the Nano, a slightly larger drive also available in data capacities of between 1 and 8GB.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=125204\"><strong>Flash drive discussion<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imation packs up to 8GB into paperclip-sized flash drive<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4327"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}