Re: These new mass storage cards

[Forty Two <FourtyTwo@NoAddress.invalid>]

On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 09:23:09 GMT, email@DELETE_THIS.luddite.no-ip.com
(Simon Williams) wrote:


>I have both. Performance-wise they are indistinguishable. A nice feature
>on the MicroDrive card is that you can hold down the Open-Apple key at
>startup and select which partition to boot from, which is really handy
>for me since I have it in a IIgs which I normally use with ProSel
>(8-bit), but sometimes have the need to boot GS/OS.
>I bought my MicroDrive from Bill at GarberStreet Ent. and I can safely
>say he excels in the support department.
>
>All said and done, I can't honestly recommend one over the other... why
>don't you just get one of each? ;-)

Hah Hah.. Thanks for everyone responses. I suspect I will have a hard
enough time selling the idea of one drive to my wife, let alone two.

Do you have some sense of the 'lead times' when ordering either of
these products? It appears for the CFFA card, they wait until they
have 100 orders, then order a production run (though I am not sure if
I am interpreting their information correctly. I left a request on
their forum for clarification).  I haven't found any info regarding
this subject for the MicroDrive.

Does anybody have any concerns for the longevity of the CF storage
card? How about heat/power requirements for the MicroDrive using an
internal drive?