Re: CF Slot and Hitachi/IBM MicroDrive

Dave Dodge <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.hardware.roku.technical
Message-ID <20040603182159.GA29626@basmati>
On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 09:27:39AM -0600, Matthew Saunders wrote:
> Will the CF slot on the HD1000 read a microdrive?

Yes, they should work.

Be warned that the transfer speed on a microdrive depends on the
model. I have an old 340M drive (one of the early ones) and it only
reaches about 14Mbit/sec, which is not fast enough to play HD video.
I tried a newer 1G model and it reads at over 22Mbit/sec.

                                                  -Dave Dodge
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