fernando lopez Posted September 9, 2005 Share Posted September 9, 2005 I'm about to buy a Hitachi 8 GB Microdrive on e-Bay. There's one concern however: I heard that these high capacity microdrives sometimes have corrupted file numbering with some cameras. I.e.: the camera will tell you that there are a number of pictures left, when in reality, you have much more shots left, but the camera doesn't indicate that. Can anyone shed some light here? I'm especially interested in users that have a 10D and use a high capacity microdrive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryanjoseph Posted September 9, 2005 Share Posted September 9, 2005 My main concern with such a large microdrive would be the fact that you have all your eggs in one basket. If you are on a long trip and this drive fails, it would be a catastrophic loss of data. Why don't you consider getting two 4 GB microdrives instead? Thats what I use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KenPapai Posted September 9, 2005 Share Posted September 9, 2005 I wouldn't put an 8GB microdrive in my 10D even if they paid me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juergenf Posted September 9, 2005 Share Posted September 9, 2005 Why not? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bsd230 Posted September 9, 2005 Share Posted September 9, 2005 I would rather use a solid state memory card myself. I work on computers for a living. I get asked all the time how to get information off of a crash drive. Electronics and moving parts, not a good combo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poulbh Posted September 9, 2005 Share Posted September 9, 2005 the 10D can only show 999 pictures left, so untill thats the case, it shows 999, but who cares, its only interesting when you are running low. File numbering is ok though. I get around 1400 pictures best quality jpg on a 4gb microdisk poul B-H Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexdi Posted September 9, 2005 Share Posted September 9, 2005 I wouldn't deal with a microdrive, particularly one that could potentially cause me to lose 3000 pictures. DI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexdi Posted September 9, 2005 Share Posted September 9, 2005 I wouldn't deal with a microdrive, particularly one that could potentially cause me to lose 3000 pictures. DI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wedding-photography-denver Posted September 9, 2005 Share Posted September 9, 2005 Just a note: MD's are a somewhat volotile media in that they contain moving parts. However, correctly handled they have the potential to be jsut as reliable as ANY Cf card. The other upside of a MD (Hitachi is by far the best IMO) is that if you have a faliure, the data can be recovered from a MD, it cannot be recovered from a failed CF card. I generally use CF cards having said that. :-0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KenPapai Posted September 9, 2005 Share Posted September 9, 2005 "Why not?" The same reason I don't play around with loaded guns. Microdrives... suck. For an afternoon of family snaps they may not suck, but for anything where you want reliability you'd be a fool to use one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fernando lopez Posted September 9, 2005 Author Share Posted September 9, 2005 Thanks to all of you. I'll be doing a 10 day shoot in China soon and just didn't want to carry around an electronics store....... (storage media, like dvd writers, harddrives etc.). When in China i have the possibility to empty my storage cards every 2 days so that would not be a problem. I guess I'll be looking for normal CF card then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digitmstr Posted September 10, 2005 Share Posted September 10, 2005 >>didn't want to carry around an electronics store...<< A PD7Xii is NOT an electronic store. Further, if you have a way of downloading the images every two day all you need is a few 1 gig cards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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