On Friday 24 September 2004 13:48, Robert Paulsen wrote:
Which is more reliable and which is faster (given the same capacity, e.g. 2GB) -- Compact Flash memory or Micro Drive?
Hi Robert- Either one will work for you. Now if you like to throw your CF cards around, go with the solid states as opposed to the microdrives. Being a professional photographer, my take might be slightly different than your average computer geek. I used microdrives successfully for 2 1/2 years before they were stolen with my camera bag last month. NEVER had any problems with them. I picked up my 2 microdrives in June 2002 as the price point for that 2GB of storage was considerably cheaper on the side of the microdrives. Again, NEVER had any problems with them. Last time I looked (monday), my camera has nearly 78,000 actuations on it. A good majority of those were shot with the microdrives. Heck, I didn't pick up my first solid state CF card until about 1 1/2 years ago and shot EVERYTHING on the microdrives prior to that. I now shoot with 2 1GB and 4 512MB Transcend CF cards and am about to pick up 2 more 1GB cards. You're really better off with lots of "smaller" cards. Better to spread things out a bit. As far as speed goes....I'm voting that the solid state CF cards are going to be quicker, but there's a saturation point that you're really not going to notice. The only time I noticed lag with the 1GB microdrives was when I was shooting large bursts of images at high ISO. Good luck, brian -- Brian Jackson Photo Sports ~ Editorial ~ People ~ Travel ~ Events http://www.BrianJacksonPhoto.com 650-218-5082