No happy X-DRIVE users?

is it only unlucky XDrive users who is writing in this forum
ore is the Xdrive simply not working ?

I would like to let all who would like to hear good news about the x-drive that it works great for me on my two week trip to Cyprus. I shot almost 3000 pictures. I at several times I had to download the mircodrive while holding it in my hand driving down the road. It took about 20 minutes to transfer a full microdive to the x-drive. I can only say that after returning from my trip I was less than impresed with all the pictures. What I am trying to say is I got caught up in the fact that I had a D100, 1gb microdrive and a 40gb x-drive. I think that it was a personal compatetion to shoot as many pictures as I could. It was a pain to look at them all. Now that I trust my equipment I plan on taking my time and composing my pictures with a little more thought....

regards,
Steve
Nikon D100
sigma 28-135
http://www.kalamazoophtoto.com

Steven D. said:

I would like to let all who would like to hear good news about the
x-drive that it works great for me on my two week trip to Cyprus. I
shot almost 3000 pictures. I at several times I had to download the
mircodrive while holding it in my hand driving down the road. It
took about 20 minutes to transfer a full microdive to the x-drive.
I can only say that after returning from my trip I was less than
impresed with all the pictures. What I am trying to say is I got
caught up in the fact that I had a D100, 1gb microdrive and a 40gb
x-drive. I think that it was a personal compatetion to shoot as
many pictures as I could. It was a pain to look at them all. Now
that I trust my equipment I plan on taking my time and composing my
pictures with a little more thought....

regards,
Steve
Nikon D100
sigma 28-135
http://www.kalamazoophtoto.com

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How can you expect me to belive you
after reading all the post about the XDrive
just kidding
Hope you got some good ones
out of the 3000 ...jaus

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Do a search on each storage device and you'd find each their own unhappiness.

So far, I've been unlucky once but at least I find out now than later.... still under trial period.

Jaus.M said:

is it only unlucky XDrive users who is writing in this forum
ore is the Xdrive simply not working ?

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I can only chime in on the posivtives. I bought an X-drive a couple of weeks ago. I bought it with no hard drive, as I had a old 10 GB laptop drive lying around. I got it up and running after some grief (OK, I forgot to remove the NTFS partition and partition/format the hard drive as a FAS32 drive). Once I figured that out everything been working really well.

I bring it with me whenever I shoot Sport (my son plays basketball). during the breaks I copy me 512MB Viking card on to it. Actually, I shove the CF card it there and leave it while shooting with another CF card when I come back the X-drive has turned itself off after having copied the content of the CF card onto the drive. When I come home I hook the X-drive up, copy everthing over to my desktop PC.

I would say that my X-drive works very well, and I have no reason to complain.

Bjarne

Jaus.M said:

is it only unlucky XDrive users who is writing in this forum
ore is the Xdrive simply not working ?

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Bjarne B. Dollerup said:

I would say that my X-drive works very well, and I have no reason
to complain.

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I can only echo the above. I have used it most days for the last two weeks and have found it to be an excellent machine. Admittedly I only use MD and CF so haven't tried the other card types but it works well and I often download to it whilst on the move.

Mark
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http://www.markdennis.com/weddingphotography
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I am wherry glad to here that there are some who are
using the XDrive whit no problems

I order the Xdrive some days ago, but reading
all the unhappy stories made me fill really bad
about it

But then why post about a working Drive
its almost like saying, my Philips TV is working great
Regards..jaus

Jaus.M said:

I am wherry glad to here that there are some who are
using the XDrive whit no problems

I order the Xdrive some days ago, but reading
all the unhappy stories made me fill really bad
about it

But then why post about a working Drive
its almost like saying, my Philips TV is working great
Regards..jaus
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Couldn't agree more. People write about the problems they have (me included) not about the positives.

Maybe I'm lucky this time. Mine seems to work fine!

Mark
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http://www.markdennis.com/photography
http://www.markdennis.com/weddingphotography
[email protected]

I shot 300 pictures this Sunday at a local Hot Rod Show. I used my IBM 1 GB Microdrive and two 512 MB Ridata CF cards. Downloaded all the images to my 40GB X-drive. I had no corrupt files. Zero! I am shooting with a D60 and always format my memory cards after every use through my firewire reader and my PC.

Yarc saw all the RAW images and converted them - no problem.