EOS 10D with Hitachi 8 GB Microdrive

Leon Fassbender , Sep 09, 2005; 05:24 a.m.

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.

Answers

Ryan Joseph , Sep 09, 2005; 10:21 a.m.

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.

Ken Papai , Sep 09, 2005; 11:48 a.m.

I wouldn't put an 8GB microdrive in my 10D even if they paid me.

Juergen F. , Sep 09, 2005; 03:07 p.m.

Why not?

Brian Duffy , Sep 09, 2005; 03:56 p.m.

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.

Poul BH , Sep 09, 2005; 03:58 p.m.

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

David Indech , Sep 09, 2005; 04:11 p.m.

I wouldn't deal with a microdrive, particularly one that could potentially cause me to lose 3000 pictures.

David Indech , Sep 09, 2005; 04:11 p.m.

I wouldn't deal with a microdrive, particularly one that could potentially cause me to lose 3000 pictures.

David Wegwart - Denver/CO. , Sep 09, 2005; 04:31 p.m.

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

Ken Papai , Sep 09, 2005; 04:41 p.m.

"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.

Leon Fassbender , Sep 09, 2005; 07:00 p.m.

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.

Giampi . , Sep 10, 2005; 05:34 p.m.

>>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.

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