Digital Media Cards Compared by James Wiseman Wednesday, June 23rd, 2004 Up until recently, I have heard many discussions online about I should mention I just bought a new 1 gig Lexar card yesterday (it scored quite highly in James' article.) The 80X version has just become available at B&H in the last couple of days(the one tested was 40X), so it'll be interesting to see just how fast this actually is. Posted by Rob Whitehead on 2004-06-29 00:59:28 Good article, James.I've mentioned elsewhere that I've now had failures of both a microdrive and a CF card (Lexar). I was suprised about the CF card because I figured they were pretty much bulletproof. Despite my experience, I do trust CF cards to keep working and I wouldn't have any problems with buying Lexar again. There's a lot more reports of failing microdrives, and I personally got 6 months of use from mine.It's probably worth making a brief comment about microdrives.Hitachi claim their new generation of microdrives is more reliable, and they may be right.I've heard nothing good about the 2.2 Gig Magicstor microdrives which are available on Ebay and elsewhere. Buyer beware.The four gig microdrive (Hitachi) has been a popular choice of late, aquired by ripping it out of the Muvo MP3 player. There's heaps of these for sale on Ebay, for about US$220. However, I've read several times now that the newer 4 Gig Muvo-extractable microdrives are difficult to format in a camera (to stop people doing this). Can anyone confirm this development? Posted by Rob Whitehead on 2004-06-26 15:56:23