Re: These new mass storage cards

[HansO <msxhans@yahoo.com>]

Forty Two <FourtyTwo@NoAddress.invalid> wrote:
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>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). 
Rich Dreher is at the moment building and sending (prepaid) CFFA cards of what
he calls the third, and likely final run of 100 CFFA cards. From the Order
status page it looks like 50 out of 100 are sold. 
So 50 more can be ordered and then perhaps no more!  
Mine is order nr 031 and I hope to receive it in a couple of weeks.

So order quickly and expect to wait 6 weeks or so at 
http://dreher.net/

> I haven't found any info regarding this subject for the MicroDrive.
Ask Bill Garber! 

>Does anybody have any concerns for the longevity of the CF storage
>card? 
A long time at least. Flash can be rewriiten many cycles and newer flash cards
seem to reassign bad blocks. But its like a hard disk: it can and will fail,
sooner or later. 

>How about heat/power requirements for the MicroDrive using an
>internal drive?
I have a Microdrive and it runs fine on internal power in a GS, with a 2 1/2
inch diskdrive, the notebook type.