But will they do this? :-)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3939333.stm
Winsor
Long Beach, CA
USA
On Aug 15, 2004, at 11:04 AM, Juergen Marbacher wrote:
>
> 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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