
The Hitachi 4GB Microdrive (CF Type II card interface) came bundled with my Sony A-100 (Alpha) camera. I never-ever had a problem with it. I can’t say that it had to operate under a lot of stress – the highest it’s been is about 12,000 ft. in Colorado – but whatever it had to do it did well. Here is my evaluation:
Pros:
- trouble-free operation – once it was formatted, no additional maintenance was ever required
- pretty good storage capacity – over 1000 pictures on a 10M camera storing ‘fine’ quality JPEGs
- better than a flash card at handling repeated write/erase cycles as its capacity to store data does not degrade
Cons:
- a little bit slow – but it did manage 3-shot bursts pretty well, takes a while to ‘zoom’ into a picture already taken
- draws more power than a CF Type I flash card that a typical D-SLR camera would accept
- less expensive alternatives are currently available
I am awarding it 4 stars and not 5 because anyone looking for a D-SLR card today must be aware that better alternatives are available. My camera just received a 16GB CF card that, on a dollar-per-gigabyte comparison, comes at half the price. However, if anyone is looking for a very small hard disk-like extension, the Microdrive is the way to go.
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