At 03:28 PM 8/27/2003, oryoki wrote:
>Minidisc users who are happy changing discs every 80 minutes need
>read no further...
(snip)
>The 4GB microdrive is a good match with Marantz's PMD-670 recorder
>(~$600), which has a Type 2 Compactflash slot and FAT32 file system.
>4GB of storage means the PMD-670 can record DAT-quality uncompressed
>stereo for six hours. If MP2 compression is OK, then you could
>capture more than 24 hours of stereo non-stop.
I can imagine nothing worse than having 12-24 hours of original recordings=
on a microdrive unit when it crashes because I jostled it during it's
read/write phase. Canon cautions digital camera users that microdrives are=
great in their high-end cameras, but you need to be very careful not to jar=
it while it's writing. They say (and I have no [personal experience to
verify or deny this) that the drives are very sensitive to physical shock
while they're writing/reading. Perhaps they are being overly pessimistic,
but what if...
Doug
Doug Von Gausig
Clarkdale, Arizona, USA
Moderator
Nature Recordists e-mail group
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/naturerecordists
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