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Equipment & Techniques => Digital Cameras & Shooting Techniques => Topic started by: francois on May 02, 2004, 01:35:39 pm

Title: Cheap MicroDrives
Post by: francois on May 02, 2004, 01:35:39 pm

Sorry to say but I only heard bad things about them. Do some search on your favorite search engine!

I went the safe route and chose Hitachi / IBM microdrives.

francois

Title: Cheap MicroDrives
Post by: francois on May 03, 2004, 03:10:08 am

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The MagicStor drives are garbage.

And they are not MicroDrives...
They seems to be slower than the IBM or Hitachi MDs (see here (http://w3.dpgallery.com/reviews/hitachi_4gb/tmp/benchmarks.htm)).
So buy either a MUVO and extract its 4Gig drive or buy a real MicroDrive. Having to deal with a problematic memory card in the field is not something enjoyable!

francois

Title: Cheap MicroDrives
Post by: francois on May 03, 2004, 10:53:43 am

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And you get no warranty if you pull one out of a player.

True!
If you're concerned about lack of warranty then buy the retail Hitachi MDs. They are more expensive but you are convered.

 :cool:

francois

Title: Cheap MicroDrives
Post by: CJ on May 02, 2004, 12:22:42 pm

Does anyone have any experience with the MagicStor 2.2Gig MicroDrive? The price (on flash-memory-store) is very favorable to the Hitachi 2 Gig, $190 vs. $235

Any thoughts?

Title: Cheap MicroDrives
Post by: MatthewCromer on May 02, 2004, 08:34:33 pm

Buy a MuVo2 4GB MP3 player and take out the hard drive.

$200, and a real Hitachi 4GB HD.

The MagicStor drives are garbage.

Title: Cheap MicroDrives
Post by: Edward on May 03, 2004, 07:13:53 am

And you get no warranty if you pull one out of a player.

Title: Cheap MicroDrives
Post by: MatthewCromer on May 03, 2004, 01:35:20 pm

Edward,

Pull 2 out of players, you'll still save $100, and if one fails use the other one as your "warrantee" :-)