There are tiny disk drives, packaged in a CF format. Anyone had a chance to play with one? A friend has it for his digital camera. I think it's 4gb. With that much memory you takes a lot of small movies and it's fast enough to keep up with that.
Yes, IBM developed the 1g Microdrive in CF2 format & it has been expanded & copied by many. I wouldn't mind having a 4g CF card for my PDA for MP3s & my Canon G2 digital camera that also does short movies.
BTW Wayne, why do you say Firewire and not USB? Both are as fast, asumming USB2. The limit is not in getting the data to the device, but writing it. Few PC's have Firewire, as I'm sure you know.
In practical usage Firewire has proven to be much faster than USB 2.0 & with less connectivity problems. Why PCs had to adopt the Intel technology is beyond me as the USB ports came after Firewire but that was made by Apple so it had to be bad is a bunch of bunk. I've compared a few external drives that were both Firewire & USB 2.0 & Firewire was always nearly twice as fast on several different machines. I've an external Pioneer 108 DVD burner that is both Firewire & USB 2.0. I get more reliable burns due to faster thru put via 1394a but unfortunately not many of my clients have 1394 just because Intel had to be different. Even my Western Digital PCMCIA 1394 card is faster on my slow laptop & the WD card doesn't provide any power via the connection. As always if you decide to accept this mission the IMF shall disavow having any knowledge. In other words YMMV [but I doubt it]. ;-)
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Ashland, OH, USA 44805
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