Fortigurn

I'm looking at either the 8GB Transcend Compact Flash card, or the 8GB SanDisk Microdrive. Obviously the SanDisk carries a higher premium (though with superior performance), but that aside, what would be the advantage of one over the other?

ericem

Microdrive is cheaper, cf more expensive. Microdrive uses more power, cf uses alot less power, and both read at about the same perfformance. There you go.

Fortigurn

Sounds good, I think it will be the Microdrive, thanks.

ericem

Good choice i own one a the seagate 8gb and i cant really telll the battery life difference, and its very durable, just make sure u put tape on the drive so u can take it out of your axim, because they never make a lip to pull out the drive. Good luck.

PocketBrain

Originally Posted by ericem

Good choice i own one a the seagate 8gb and i cant really telll the battery life difference, and its very durable, just make sure u put tape on the drive so u can take it out of your axim, because they never make a lip to pull out the drive. Good luck.

And don't cover the breather hole!
Select Microdrive Mode if you use TCPMP to view audio/video files.


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Bagelsnbrew

I'm happy with my 8GB Seagate but from casual shopping, it seems that the price difference between the two formats is not that great anymore. If the price were within $10 or so, I'd go with the CF for the reduced power consumption and mechanical simplicity.

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ericem

OMG hes right the cf's have dropped when looking on ebay!! wow, but i still prefer my microdrive because i can say this is a harddrive

mingkee

currently flash-based CF drops price like crazy
I have patriot 8GB CF, it works well with X51v
I can tell the different when you use it with HP HX2415, CF is a lot more stable with GSPlayer (Seagate skips sometimes), and CF has more battery time than MDrive (esp playing audio files)

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Flash is better, no moving parts equals less chance of failure in my humble opinion

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Yeah, I'm for flash. When I got my 8GB CF it was less than $20 more than the Seagate Microdrive (NewEgg and Buy.com, respectively). There is one major advantage to microdrives, though, which is irrelevant to a PDA: essentially unlimited write cycles. The Samsung laptop that uses flash won't last very long, as Windows constantly reads and writes from the hard drive. Windows Mobile doesn't do that in order to conserve the Flash - it transfers all files that need to be continuously updated to the RAM (hence most of the disappeared space). Oh, and they can write about 3 times faster.

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GCY

be extremely careful when buying memory cards from ebay. Chances are u might buy a fake one. Def. don't ever buy one from China. 95% chance its gonna be fake.

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There is one major advantage to microdrives, though, which is irrelevant to a PDA: essentially unlimited write cycles.

I don't think MEMS will last very long if it's being written to constantly either. The high voltage power supply that powers the electrostatic parts in the MEMS unit will be pretty heavily strained. There's no definite write cycle limit, though.

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