Thanks for sharing that. I have been skeptical of microdrives myself.
They are technological wonders with all those tiny parts moving at
ungodly speeds, but even the big ones fail and we back them up. Plus
compared to memory cards they are slow and suck more energy out of
your camera's battery. As in the article some one posted here some
time ago they don't work after nailing them to a tree. :-)
Of course CF cards are said to fail sometimes, but they seem to tempt
fate less. I tend to use small CF cards rather than the giant ones
after thinking about how much more unhappy I would be losing 400
images than 50 or a 100.
Winsor
Long Beach, California, USA
On Aug 13, 2005, at 4:09 AM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> I've seen a friend's two microdrives both fail in the past year. One
> was a relatively new (2 yrs old?) 1 GB drive that was sent off to a
> data
> recovery service to recover the images. They recovered all of the
> images and the drive came back operational. Not sure what they did
> but
> it had been beyond any CF card or other disk data recovery
> utilities we
> had available to us. Anyhow, although the drive works the owner
> refuses
> to use it anymore.
>
> The other failure was a relatively ancient 370 MB drive. We were on a
> long shoot together and I borrowed the drive from him after using
> up all
> three of my CF cards. I took about 20 shots on that card and
> successfully downloaded the images. The next time the card was
> plugged
> into the camera or any other reading device it was esentially
> dead. You
> could hear the disk spinning up but no camera or other reading device
> would recognize that there was anything plugged into the CF slot.
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