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To: Steve 667 who wrote (13832)	8/11/2000 10:05:18 AM
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Steve, I think your post this morning was a bit dramatic and posted with some intentional shock value. YOUR POINTS ARE WELL TAKEN EVEN WITHOUT THE USE OF BOLD AND CAPS!!! I think write speed is an issue that will continue to be touted by certain companies. Eli refers to these as "braggin' rights" because in most digital cameras aimed for the general consumer the "click-to-click" speed is not dependent to any significant degree on the flash card. The trend has been to add a RAM buffer (I believe it is SRAM) into the camera which then writes to the flash card in the background between shots. The Olympus 3030 has 32 MB of such RAM. SSTI uses a small portion of DRAM in the controller itself that allows a similar buffering to take place. Lexar has another proprietary method to accelerate writing sessions. I doubt that the average user (AP photojournalists exluded) would notice much difference at all between various cards. The argument you make in favor of the IBM microdrive leaves out several important points... 1) entry cost...about $350 for the 340 MB drive, 2) power consumption...which has lead some manufacturers to forgo a CF type II slot, and 3) reliability...mechanical failure and write errors. _____________________________________________________________________________ The Galbraith site offered this information as well... Among those bitten by their microdrive, trends are easier to spot: "The microdrive sends a clear signal when it's deceased. It makes a distinctive click-click-click sound as it tries to spin to life, and refuses to be recognized by camera or computer. An unlucky 13 respondents cited this happening to one or more microdrives. This is the sound my dead 340MB microdrive makes as well." "Images not being written reliably to the card, with the camera sometimes locking up simultaneously, was cited by 11 respondents. Several of those indicated that they didn't experience similar problems with Sandisk or Lexar Media Flash RAM cards." "Another 14 users indicated that their card or cards would present a blinking "FOR" or "CHA" error message during Nikon D1 shooting. The "CHA" message in particular suggests a serious miscommunication occurred between the camera and the microdrive." _____________________________________________________________________________ The IBM microdrive has had plenty of time to surface as the leader in removable memory. Clearly it has been relegated a niche position for capacity hungry professional photographers creating 6 MB tiff files. Ask yourself, have you ever seen it at retail? It is just like Limtex said. Ford and GM generate more cash than Rolls Royce. I like to think of CompactFlash cards as yellow taxis... ...each with a SanDisk meter running inside. Ausdauer SanDisk...getting you from point A to point.

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