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Summary: Read if you use a portable digital audio player!
Review: I have the 1GB Microdrive (you can get it way cheaper from Iomega.com) and I thought it was cool at first but now I know just how bad it really is. I don't use it in my digital camera cause I never take that many pics at a time. I tried to use it in my LYRA 2 player. It works fine if your not moving. Because it has moving parts it skips a lot and creates a ton more heat than a real compacflash card. DO NOT USE IN A PORTABLE DIGITAL AUDIO PLAYER! It skips every time you move. If your're going to put up with skips you might as well use CD-R's for 50 cents each with an MP3 cd player. If you want more space get one of those Archos jukebox recorder things with 20 gigs that work as hard drives too. You don't have to convert MP3's into anything (like mpx on most "mp3" players) and you'll have as much space as most laptops do.
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Summary: Read if you use a portable digital audio player!
Review: I have the 1GB Microdrive (you can get it way cheaper from Iomega.com) and I thought it was cool at first but now I know just how bad it really is. I don't use it in my digital camera cause I never take that many pics at a time. I tried to use it in my LYRA 2 player. It works fine if your not moving. Because it has moving parts it skips a lot and creates a ton more heat than a real compacflash card. DO NOT USE IN A PORTABLE DIGITAL AUDIO PLAYER! It skips every time you move. If your're going to put up with skips you might as well use CD-R's for 50 cents each with an MP3 cd player. If you want more space get one of those Archos jukebox recorder things with 20 gigs that work as hard drives too. You don't have to convert MP3's into anything (like mpx on most "mp3" players) and you'll have as much space as most laptops do.
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Summary: Iomega not quite up to speed
Review: I purchased this Iomega drive and was thoroughly happy with it. I could take over 300 pictures at the highest resolution with my Canon s10. The one gripe I have with this drive is it's speed. Since it is a 3rd party drive you would have to expect certain drawbacks. The IBM 340 drive transfers data in the range of 30.1mb/s to 45.2mb/s The Iomega drive transfers data at 5.2mb/s. This is not a problem if you are not in a rush to upload your pictures. Other than that, it is a fine drive and definitely worth the money.
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Summary: Iomega not quite up to speed
Review: I purchased this Iomega drive and was thoroughly happy with it. I could take over 300 pictures at the highest resolution with my Canon s10. The one gripe I have with this drive is it's speed. Since it is a 3rd party drive you would have to expect certain drawbacks. The IBM 340 drive transfers data in the range of 30.1mb/s to 45.2mb/s The Iomega drive transfers data at 5.2mb/s. This is not a problem if you are not in a rush to upload your pictures. Other than that, it is a fine drive and definitely worth the money.
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Summary: Excellent for Pocket PC - but not for real life
Review: I was running out of room with MP3s and eBooks on my iPaq and plugged this thing in. It works great, though it does use up the battery a little more. I use the adapter with other compact flash cards and it works like a charm on my laptop in Windows 2000. The only problem with the adapter is that you can't just pull out the card and replace it without stopping and removing the PC Card adapter with it. And in Win 2K each insertion seems to use a new drive letter. But that's a problem with all the adapters. I'd give it 5 stars, except for one thing. I'd hoped to use it in my Kodak 4800 digital camera, but it was too thick for that. I could blame that on Kodak because their product info and documentation don't mention any size limit to the cards the camera accepts, but Iomega didn't mention it either. **Update: Six months later, I dropped this thing once. My iPaq no longer recognizes it and the PC adapter doesn't either. Iomega's support site directs the user to pages that do not offer any help for MicroDrives. They have a page for data recovery services (necessary for their products), but the service cost more than the drive and there is nothing on the page about MicroDrives (the same goes for the merchandise return page) Durability is very poor, so I dropped my review to 2 stars. I'm sticking with Compact Flash memory cards - they're a lot cheaper and more durable.
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Summary: Works but worries me.
Review: I've had this microdrive for about six months. I use it with a Canon Pro90, and I have a USB Card Reader (for my desktop) and plug the adapter directly into a powerbook via the PCMCIA slot.
When I shoot, I often go for a full weekend, but sometimes take the powerbook with me. I'll fill this up with large superfine images in a full afternoon of shooting. I use a couple 64 MB compact flash cards as backup for when I run out of room. What I like about it: it's larger than my compact flash cards. What I don't like about it: it does run very hot, both in computer and in the camera. there's been a couple times when it was so hot that it alarmed me. a couple corrupted data files have appeared on the drive. i'm not sure whether they are related to the pro90, or whether they are results of a drive malfunction. i can't get rid of them (they pretend to take up some TERAbytes of space, but don't really). the drive is still usable, but whenever this happens i get a drive error, and i can't take any more pictures, even if there's clearly space left on the drive until i fix things via computer. one of the times that this happend, the drive was running very very hot. i'm not sure whether i'm inappropriately attributing a cause effect relationship, but it seems like the two things may be related. because it is a drive it seems to be vulnerable to rough handling. i do take it out of camera while out taking shots because i run out of room, but i do not like worrying about how gingerly i have to handle it. if it were to stay in camera, i'd probably be less worried. also, it is slower than the compact flash cards, and this is a bit of a pain. because of my worries and the loss of speed, i've recently purchased a 256 MB compact flash card in hopes of putting my mind at ease. my suggestion: at this size (350 MB), it might be better to stick with flash memory. at 1 GB, however, the extra memory
and saved dough would probably far outweigh the concerns. summary: it has worked fine for me for 6 months. i've lost
pictures because of it only once or twice, and potential pictures, not pictures on the drive. if flash memory were available for the same price and in sufficient bulk, i'd choose flash.
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Summary: Works but worries me.
Review: I've had this microdrive for about six months. I use it with a Canon Pro90, and I have a USB Card Reader (for my desktop) and plug the adapter directly into a powerbook via the PCMCIA slot.
When I shoot, I often go for a full weekend, but sometimes take the powerbook with me. I'll fill this up with large superfine images in a full afternoon of shooting. I use a couple 64 MB compact flash cards as backup for when I run out of room. What I like about it: it's larger than my compact flash cards. What I don't like about it: it does run very hot, both in computer and in the camera. there's been a couple times when it was so hot that it alarmed me. a couple corrupted data files have appeared on the drive. i'm not sure whether they are related to the pro90, or whether they are results of a drive malfunction. i can't get rid of them (they pretend to take up some TERAbytes of space, but don't really). the drive is still usable, but whenever this happens i get a drive error, and i can't take any more pictures, even if there's clearly space left on the drive until i fix things via computer. one of the times that this happend, the drive was running very very hot. i'm not sure whether i'm inappropriately attributing a cause effect relationship, but it seems like the two things may be related. because it is a drive it seems to be vulnerable to rough handling. i do take it out of camera while out taking shots because i run out of room, but i do not like worrying about how gingerly i have to handle it. if it were to stay in camera, i'd probably be less worried. also, it is slower than the compact flash cards, and this is a bit of a pain. because of my worries and the loss of speed, i've recently purchased a 256 MB compact flash card in hopes of putting my mind at ease. my suggestion: at this size (350 MB), it might be better to stick with flash memory. at 1 GB, however, the extra memory
and saved dough would probably far outweigh the concerns. summary: it has worked fine for me for 6 months. i've lost
pictures because of it only once or twice, and potential pictures, not pictures on the drive. if flash memory were available for the same price and in sufficient bulk, i'd choose flash.
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