Hitachi 4gb Digital Microdrive High Speed Memory Card
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Products Description
Small size and enhanced 4GB capacity permits you to carry an entire continent of maps or 1,000 songs in your pocket. Reliable storage for data, photos, music, and videos from digital cameras, PDAs, handheld PCs, MP3 digital audio players, laptops and other portable handheld devices Hitachi’s new 4GB Microdrive is designed to the Compact Flash Type II industry standard and is compatible with a wide variety of devices that accept CF+ Type II media. The 4GB Microdrive is formatted at the factory using the FAT32 file system to remedy the 2GB limitation of the FAT16 file system.
Hitachi 4gb Digital Microdrive High Speed Memory Card Features
- Store thousands of high-resolution images
- High speed means less delay between shots
- Weighs less that a roll of film
- Best choice for digital cameras
- Kit includes Hitachi 4gb microdrive retail packing, Pro card reader, & Opteka cleaning kit
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Customer Review
most cameras need a Fat 16 formated drive.
All 4 GB drives come (IBM or Hitachi or labels) come formated FAT32
so given that fact , most cameras will fail. If yours works , skip this review, ok?
However you can reformat it.
What’s worse,
there at 2 types of drives.
Hitachi says
white label is REAL-IDE interface only ( computer , Ipod, MP3 unit, etc)
and that blue label is: CF+ Camera Microdrive
so if you have a white lable , chances are, It will never work with a camera. To be sure, check the model number on your drive againt the Hitachi online specifications to be sure.
To fix FAT32 , get a USB to FC/MD Memory reader device.
find Windows XP pro, Home stinks , find the real thing.
Go to control panel + admin..tools +computer.managment + disk management.
recommend looking before and after pluging in your microdrive
so you will recognize it when plugged in.
find it and right click , delete partition. ( be dang careful here)
now, right click it again, and creat a new partition of 2gb.
when that is done format it to FAT16. ( some times called FAT)
you lost 2gb, but that ok, as many cams have a limit of 2gb, but not all.
set the partition to whatever you camera manaual allows.
the above assume you are not in some recovery mode.
For that you need special software and
Thank you for the memories – A. Dent – Minas Anor, GD
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.
Slow in read and write speeds but good card – R. Bertucci – Mississippi
I have this Microdrive for over a year now with no problems with it. I just would not buy another one because of the slow speed. I own a D300 and it takes 8sec to write 1 TIFF file to the card, but with SanDisk Extreme III it takes 1sec… I have used it many times when my other cards are full and it has not let me down when storing the images. 1 or 2 time if messed up 1 photo but was quickly noticed and erased and retaken with no problems. I do take care of it and do not subject it to freezing cold or dropping it on the ground. Again I have heard good and bad about this card but I say it is Good.
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