20:1 could well be the ratio of CF:microdrives in use, which then would also
explain why you don't hear much of md failures.
J
> My experience is much different than yours. Between me and photographer
> friends we own(ed) one microdrive and probably 20 or so CF cards. The
> one microdrive did fail. All of the data was recovered by a data
> recovery service at hefty expense. The microdrive has never been
> replaced or used again. None of the CF cards have failed.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
> AG Schnozz wrote:
> > Dr Flash wrote:
> >> CF cards are remarkably reliable but one *will* fail
> >> some day and 1/2 of the eggs is all I'm willing to risk in a single
> >> basket
> >
> > You bring up a couple of good points. First of all, they WILL fail.
> > What I find interesting is that we suppose that the Microdrives are
> > unreliable and and so on, but you never hear about them actually
> > failing in real life. But there are a zillion reports of CF memory
> > cards failing.
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