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francois
Sorry to say but I only heard bad things about them. Do some search on your favorite search engine!

I went the safe route and chose Hitachi / IBM microdrives.

francois
francois
Quote (MatthewCromer @ May 03 2004,02:34)
The MagicStor drives are garbage.

And they are not MicroDrives...
They seems to be slower than the IBM or Hitachi MDs (see here).
So buy either a MUVO and extract its 4Gig drive or buy a real MicroDrive. Having to deal with a problematic memory card in the field is not something enjoyable!

francois
francois
Quote (Guest @ May 03 2004,13:13)
And you get no warranty if you pull one out of a player.

True!
If you're concerned about lack of warranty then buy the retail Hitachi MDs. They are more expensive but you are convered.

:cool:

francois
CJ
Does anyone have any experience with the MagicStor 2.2Gig MicroDrive? The price (on flash-memory-store) is very favorable to the Hitachi 2 Gig, $190 vs. $235

Any thoughts?
MatthewCromer
Buy a MuVo2 4GB MP3 player and take out the hard drive.

$200, and a real Hitachi 4GB HD.

The MagicStor drives are garbage.
Edward
And you get no warranty if you pull one out of a player.
MatthewCromer
Edward,

Pull 2 out of players, you'll still save $100, and if one fails use the other one as your "warrantee" :-)
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