[OM] Re: Well, that's that, then....

[Chuck Norcutt]

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.

I'll continue to put my trust in the all solid state devices none of 
which have failed... yet.  For CF cards I have Lexar 40X and SanDisk 
Ultra II and I am partial to the Ultra II on the basis of 
price/performance... a bit slower than the fastest available but not 
premium priced.  The Ultra II's are very much faster than the Lexar 40X.

See Rob Galbraith's CF card performance database:
<http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/multi_page.asp?cid=6007>

Chuck Norcutt

Chris Barker wrote:
> Paul
> 
> I tried a Microdrive in my E-1 and it works fine.  But I rarely use  
> up the burst "magazine" of the camera.  I prefer to use a 512Mb card  
> and download the files frequently.  Have fun ...


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