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3.0 out of 5 stars READ if buying for use with Canon Digital Camera, February 11, 2005

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ColinD "Colin" (Dallas, TX) - See all my reviews

Although this drive is a great buy and performs well, this particular microdrive will not function well in any of the Canon digital cameras.

I purchased this drive for use in a 20D. The drive worked for about 3 days and then I got CF errors on the camera. Then two days later the drive worked in the camera again. I tested the drive using a CF reader via USB port and the drive always worked.

After doing some more research on the web at several digital camera related sites, I discovered more users with the exact same issue with this drive and Canon Digital Cameras.

No one seems to know or understand the issue with this particular drive and Canon.

The drive for any other use is a great buy.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Macro-Value for a microdrive!, January 27, 2005

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john charles webb (Honolulu, HI United States) - See all my reviews

I have two of these Magicstor 2.2gb CF +type II microdrives.

One is used in a digital camera and the other in a handheld computer. They perform excellently and are a superior value.

Because they are small (micro) harddrives with movable internal parts they require more battery power than the "regular" 2gb (ram only) compact flash cards. They are also a bit more delicate than the regular compact flash cards and require some additional care to prevent dropping or bending. Otherwise, they provide massive storage for portable devices that accommodate them and they are a snap to use! With a compact USB flash reader (very inexpensive) they also can be integrated effortlessly into your computer system and show up as an additional external harddrive which saves 100% of your time downloading images from your digital camera, etc.

Highly recommended!

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3.0 out of 5 stars Nice, but..., May 24, 2005

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John R. Stracke Jr. "bibliophiliac" (Outside Boston) - See all my reviews
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The drive is nice, but I have a couple of surprising problems with it. First: unlike other CF cards I've used, it doesn't have a little tab at the back for pulling it out. (Admittedly, my sample size is small: I have only two other CF cards, both of them from the same manufacturer, Viking.) Instead, it has a couple of grip points on the side. This would be fine, except that, when the card is in my Zaurus 6000, these grip points are nearly inaccessible; to get the card out, I had to pry it out with my thumbnails (which won't work next time, since one of said thumbnails got ripped up in the process). I think I can make do by carrying around a little screwdriver to lever the grip points out (they're actual indentations in the metal case), but it's annoying.

Second problem: the drive is slow. It's more than fast enough for playing back music and (I think) video, but the problem comes when you need to read or write a lot of data (and, if you don't, then you don't need a microdrive). I copied a large body of music files onto it (about 1.6G), and it took 83 minutes; it worked out to 300KB/s. It also meant slow responsiveness just on browsing around the filesystem.

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