IDE Ultra ATA/33 ATA-4 - 3600 rpm - 128 KB Buffer - 1" - MPN: 0A40701
Strengths: poor
Weakness: not for photography
I bought this, thinking it will be ready to slide in my cannon 5d and it was not! this is a microdrive (small hardrive, and if I had bothered reading about it, I would have seen that! Don't waiste your money on this.
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TopUh, why would you give a poor rating to a product because you had no clue what you were buying? Especially since the product description clearly stated what it was in the first sentence. Isn't that sort of like throwing your television out the window because you couldn't microwave your TV dinner with it?
DUH, its a microdrive. The product works fine for photography. The only supposed drawback of microdrives are their speed. I have a coolpix 8800 and compared the new Ultra Extreme 3 4GB CF card, supposedly 3 times faster than my microdrive, and the amount of time to save a 25MB Raw picture was exactly the same. Probably a limitation of my camera not the memory. So my suggestion is to buy both the fastest CF available and a microdrive and do your own tests if speed is a factor in what you are buying. Otherwise buy the microdrive, if your camera supports it of course, as it is much less expensive per MB.
I have this product and it works perfectly and as advertised in my Dell Axim (allows me to store up to 16 movies plus GPS maps of the USA and all my programs). It also doubles as a vacation drive for my Nikon D70 when I'm going away for a long time but don't want to lug a computer along to transfer pics to. I think that the hardware (camera/axim) is likely the bottleneck so I've not had any issues w/ speed. And, the buffers, etc. mean that the thing only runs a minimal amount of the time that it's in use so I haven't noticed any significant difference in battery drain using it. Sure I'd rather have 8gb of 80x flash memory but only if they were the same price - a Microdrive is a fraction of the cost of its 80x or better flash memory equivalent.
Strengths: good device
Weakness: zif connector
The microdrive DON'T work with the any Dell Axim (I got a 51v I bought it for it), that's a non true info, circulating on the web. The connector is a 35 pin ZIF and the majority of device take CF II standard. There is no adapter on the market, so be really sure that you don't need a CF II, but a ZIF connector before buying it.
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Great low-cost memory option
Strengths: Large capacity, low $/GB
Weakness: Can't use while skydiving, at least not until you drop below 12,000 feet.
I have this product and it works perfectly and as advertised in my Dell Axim (allows me to store up to 16 movies plus GPS maps of the USA and all my programs). It also doubles as a vacation drive for my Nikon D70 when I'm going away for a long time but don't want to lug a computer along to transfer pics to. I think that the hardware (camera/axim) is likely the bottleneck so I've not had any issues w/ speed. And, the buffers, etc. mean that the thing only runs a minimal amount of the time that it's in use so I haven't noticed any significant difference in battery drain using it. Sure I'd rather have 8gb of 80x flash memory but only if they were the same price - a Microdrive is a fraction of the cost of its 80x or better flash memory equivalent.
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Jun 10, 2007
I found this while looking for ways to increase memory for an old Compaq 1255 laptop. It's small 4.3gig drive is stuffed. The ata mmc model should work fine with a pcmcia adapter. Elsewhere I found an adapter from mmc to pcmcia. The laptop is a lab for pic basic stamp projects and doesn't need core 2 duo power for what it does. I think this is about the easiest way to add memory to it.
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I will let you know as soon as I get everything installed.