Compact Flash or Microdrive
 

Probably the wrong forum, but, would I be better buying a 1 gig Microdrive or a 1 gig CF card for my camera? Which is more reliable?

Re: Compact Flash or Microdrive
 

I wouldn't put 'all my eggs in one basket', whatever is the more reliable, lol, my biggest cf is 96mb;)

Re: Compact Flash or Microdrive
 

I have no experience of CF cards, but my 1GB microdrive has been 100% reliable so far. :D

btw, moved to Technology :)

Re: Compact Flash or Microdrive
 

may be slightly :notopic: but my latest camera is a niconcoolpix 2100
and i had a hell of a job transfering pix from the cam to the pc through the cable...I thought it was faulty and got it replaced but the new on e did the same:mad:
so i got a card reader
oh it uses cf no prob so far:)

ps exuse typos bacadi 8 year old ;) :drool:

Re: Compact Flash or Microdrive
 

Remember CF's have NO moving parts, unlike the micro drive! So are less susceptible to damage from "hard handling". Some of the cheaper Mdrives have been known to fail very easily, but the Hitachi/IBM drives are well built. I have several "smaller" CF cards (4 x 256 Mb, 1 x 512Mb and a 64Mb -a freebie from Canon!) as per an earlier suggestion, to avoid having all my eggs in one basket!

I typically get 101 images at highest Jpeg quality on a 256 card, but just 39 at RAW.

Re: Compact Flash or Microdrive
 

Some CoolPix cameras (well my 885 at least) did not like going through an unpowered usb hub! Is that your connection? I recall an issue with the software and Win ME, are you using that os?

Re: Compact Flash or Microdrive
 

All the pictures i take are in RAW format, hense the need for some larger media, I'll probably go for the CF card. Cheers

Re: Compact Flash or Microdrive
 

The opinions of a professional photographer on this subject are here:
http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/cf.htm

(To summarise - he reckons that the Microdrive is the most reliable)