"Ranft, Richard" wrote:
>
> See http://www.compactflash.org/pr/020107b.pdf for a report about damage to
> flash memory sent by mail.
> I don't think it is durable for a recording medium, but I never anticipated
> anyone using it for storage. Use it as an acquisition medium in field
> recording, and transfer recordings to storage media (e.g. optical discs such
> as CD) as soon as possible.
Tell that to Aaron, who is apparently in the process of transferring the
recordings he made in a 9 month long trip, 120+ minidiscs, many of which
were shipped home in batches. Let's see, that's what 148 hours of
recording if the disks were filled. I just wonder how much it will cost
for enough solid state memory to do that?
Or just me, where, when it gets busy I make a choice to continue
recording and process later, sometimes several months later. I can do
this because I'm absolutely certain the recording will still be there.
My point is that I'm not the only one. I don't see anybody in this group
rushing out and buying these to entrust that once in a lifetime
recording to. Put your money where your mouth is, go get one and make it
your main recorder. And to show you really mean it get rid of your DAT,
cassette or MD or whatever you are using now. If it can replace MD, then
it can even more replace all the other formats too. Obviously DAT won't
stand up well to a trip through the laundry. Marantz makes a nice model,
equivalent to their MD unit.
I can see it's obvious there is a bunch of talk and that's all. And it's
not pro solid state, just another attack on MD. Well, if this is capable
of replacing MD, then it's also the replacement for DAT and cassette,
etc. I use the recording medium I like. If you like this so well, use it!
And for those that wash solid state memory, my box full of blank MD's
was flooded by a roof leak recently. All MD's are just fine.
Walt
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