Winsor Crosby wrote:
>People seem to like microdrives and say they are durable. And that was
>before Hitachi strengthened the case so you do not bend it and destroy
>the mechanism if you are clumsy removing it from the camera. They
>should be better now. :-) My only real complaint is that they draw
>more power. The camera battery has to spin up a drive all the time. I
>would rather use my camera battery to lay down more images.
Additional power consumption is really negligible. But there is a big
difference between IBM now Hitachi microdrives and the Magicstore, which -
according to lots of disappointed users in several usenet groups - causes a
multitude of problems.
jm
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