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nucki
5th of January 2004 (Mon), 01:12
Hi!

has anybody experiance with this Microdrive? Or do you know any links or test of these card?

http://www.langeronline.de/magic_store_2_2_gb.htm

best regards
Peter[/b]
defordphoto
5th of January 2004 (Mon), 04:00
Stand back from the sales counter! Don't touch this drive. It has serious problems. Stick with Hitachi or IBM microdrives only, if buying a microdrive. I haven't read anything good regarding these drives. They need to be pulled from the market.
nucki
5th of January 2004 (Mon), 04:21
Stand back from the sales counter! Don't touch this drive. It has serious problems. Stick with Hitachi or IBM microdrives only, if buying a microdrive. I haven't read anything good regarding these drives. They need to be pulled from the market.

Thanks Jim! I thought almost the same!
best regards
Peter
defordphoto
5th of January 2004 (Mon), 05:58
You're welcome Peter. People have had nothing but problems with this drive. Not to mention that 2.2 gigs is kind of overkill. Get 2 1gig drives instead. Or even 4 512s. I do like 1gig drives when I'm shooting sports though...
AndrewEllinas
5th of January 2004 (Mon), 06:19
is there any particular benefit to using a micro drive over a CF card?

i use 2 1G cards and haven't run out of storage on a shoot yet. on top of that, they're not so delicate. so why use a micro drive?
nucki
5th of January 2004 (Mon), 07:31
is there any particular benefit to using a micro drive over a CF card?

i use 2 1G cards and haven't run out of storage on a shoot yet. on top of that, they're not so delicate. so why use a micro drive?

Microdrives are now a lot cheaper than CF cards in the same size. I'm currently thinking of buying an X Drive or something. MD are really slow if they getting full! so I think I will get an X drive and and additional 512 MB Cf card!

best regards
Peter
CyberDyneSystems
5th of January 2004 (Mon), 09:05
The advantage of an MD is lower cost,. but the cost difference is a lot less than it used to be,. so ther advantage is minimalised these days. A good 1 gig CF can be had for about $200.00