The microdrive SUCKssss!!!!!

[davicito13]

thats it!
Toooooooooooo slow and hang a lot!!!

SUCK! coño!

[nuclear]

thats it!
Toooooooooooo slow and hang a lot!!!

SUCK! coño!
Agreed. Using TomTom and found it very slow and refresh rate was very slow too. Transfer speed to Microdrive is also slow. Well you dont have an Athena yet correct? I got rid of mine too. I got 100% refund on it ^^

[davicito13]

yeah have an Athena and I'm happy with almost everything, I mean the microdrive don't work very well.
Sometime I had to reset the device because the files in microdrive missing...

I'll buy an microSD card...

[mahjong]

My Microdrive goes perfect. I know that early delivered TMobile Ameos got some troubles but my HTC Advantage X7500 works perfect.

It's not slow at all and I got no trouble with TT6 maps on it. I use it intensively since I have music, videos and maps for Tomtom and OziExplorerCe into the microdrive and all off them works perfect. And you know video playing is and drive usage intensive task. And related to OziExplorerCe I have in the microdrive about 2 GB of maps and sat-photos and all of them works perfect.

So... if your microdrive sucks... mine not.

[Robson]

My Microdrive goes perfect. I know that early delivered TMobile Ameos got some troubles but my HTC Advantage X7500 works perfect.

It's not slow at all and I got no trouble with TT6 maps on it. I use it intensively since I have music, videos and maps for Tomtom and OziExplorerCe into the microdrive and all off them works perfect. And you know video playing is and drive usage intensive task. And related to OziExplorerCe I have in the microdrive about 2 GB of maps and sat-photos and all of them works perfect.

So... if your microdrive sucks... mine not.


no offense to the others, but my microdrive..like mahjong...is working perfectly. i'm using a u1000 by the way. i wonder if this problem is restricted to the a "spefic" athena. you know, ameo, advantage, x7500, etc. i hope there's a cab file or a quick fix which will help the others with their issues. maybe a rom upgrade will work? anyone with microdrive issues tried this already? if yes, did it improve?

cheers

[Doodle]

I benchmarked the microdrive and it is significantly faster than my SD card!!
Also, it behave great, I got most of my programs installed on in because of the speed. It never hangs or gives an error.

[wgary]

I benchmarked the microdrive and it is significantly faster than my SD card!!
Also, it behave great, I got most of my programs installed on in because of the speed. It never hangs or gives an error.
Very interesting analysis! I've been keeping programs on my SD and mainly use the MicroDrive for data storage. Maybe I need to rethink that strategy...
What did you use for benchmarks?
BTW, I have had no problems with MicroDrive... which includes a three-foot drop to concrete floor! But others have reported issues.

[johnwalk]

My Microdrive goes perfect. I know that early delivered TMobile Ameos got some troubles but my HTC Advantage X7500 works perfect.

It's not slow at all and I got no trouble with TT6 maps on it. I use it intensively since I have music, videos and maps for Tomtom and OziExplorerCe into the microdrive and all off them works perfect. And you know video playing is and drive usage intensive task. And related to OziExplorerCe I have in the microdrive about 2 GB of maps and sat-photos and all of them works perfect.

So... if your microdrive sucks... mine not.

I got my Ameo the day after it was released, so I consider it early, but its been excellent so far, and much quicker than miniSD

[Volcanodancer]

Indeed... I have no microdrive problems either, except that it drinks the battery if you do a lot of file swapping.

[eaglesteve]

I used keep by programs on sd and only videos/photos on md. Now it has been reversed. My unit works very fast. Md is at least 10 times faster than my class 4 sd.

The other advantage of this arrangement is I can have unlimited number of sd cards that can be switched in and out like our floppy disk for pc. I'm no longer constrained by 12gb maximum storage. I can have unlimited videos and photos by simply having more sd cards. :-)

[Johnston411]

Mine seems to disappear sometimes or the data on it becomes gobildegook but a soft reset fixes it.

I transferred 5gb of music in around 2hrs or less in a select all drag and drop scenario but when i try to transfer .avi files around 700mb, one at a time, they are taking over an hour.

Is this the norm?

[zio111]

Don't know if this will help anyone, but when i first had my advantage i had issues with the microdrive apparently dropping out while synced suddenly nothing in it at all, seems it only happened when WMP 11 on vista (don't know about other versions) decided it would try and sync up music as soon as the device was detected. Turned off WMP sync and have never had another issue.

As for video's i've been transferring 350mb ish DivX avi's in 10 to 15 minutes a piece, perhaps it depends on the encoding of the video ?