Re: 1G or two 512's

On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 20:34:55 +0100, "SleeperMan"
<SleeperMan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Bill Funk wrote:
>> On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 11:00:26 -0000, "Steven Campbell"
>> <newsgroup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> It happened to me. Due to them being small and thin I managed to let
>>> one slip through my fingers when I was transferring it from my
>>> camera to card reader. It dropped from a height of about 2 feet on
>>> to wooden flooring. Wiped out the 100 or so pictures I had on it as
>>> it was now unreadable both in the camera and in the card reader.
>>> Luckily I had backed up the pictures on to my PC and had only lost
>>> the last 5 pictures I had taken which happened to be stuff for Ebay
>>> which I could easily re do.
>>
>> Would we be right in assuming this would have been a Microdrive?
>
>indeed...it's very strange if not impossible for normal card to go bad if
>dropped ...
>
You mean the bits don't all fall down to the side that hit the
concrete? :-)

OTOH, we were discussing CF cards in general. The sudden shift to MDs
(without a mention of the shift) and a mention of a loss of data from
a drop can confuse those who aren't as up to speed on these things as
many of us here.
IMO, it's important to consider the audience, and not assume they will
all be able to make the shift in subject matter.

--
Bill Funk
Replace "g" with "a"
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