{"id":667,"date":"2007-02-25T12:43:31","date_gmt":"2007-02-25T10:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2007\/02\/25\/compactdrive-pd70x-last-news\/"},"modified":"2020-10-16T11:19:17","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T09:19:17","slug":"compactdrive-pd70x-last-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2007\/02\/25\/compactdrive-pd70x-last-news\/","title":{"rendered":"CompactDrive PD70X, latest news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/PD70X-2000-4GB_250.jpg\" alt=\"CompactDrive PD70X\" align=\"right\"\/>For me, the CompactDrive PD70X is still a marvellous machine when you want to copy your flash memory cards onto portable hard disc storage. It still owns the speed record and it behaves like a camel when it comes to electric energy.<\/p>\n<p>Today, I learned a few interesting informations that I want to share with the other owners:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The HyperDrive HD80 (best distributed in the USA) seems to use the same electronics core and share the same firmwares<\/li>\n<li>Some users have had difficulties with 2+GB cards<\/li>\n<li>A <a href=\"http:\/\/compact-drive.de\/\">new firmware version (2.2)<\/a> is available from the German site (Resolves compatibility issues with certain Lexar CF cards; Fixes bug in usage of fragmented non-contiguous hard disk space (requires reformatting of hard drive); It is still unclear if this solves all the 2GB\/4GB card problems)<\/li>\n<li>The new firmware increases the battery charge time (to better compatibility with most recent large capacity batteries)<\/li>\n<li>The PD70X is now officially considered by its manufacturer as a product having reached end of life and will no longer receive new firmware upgrades (but people will certainly keep checking the HyperDrive firmwares since up to now it was a successful bet)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A good product reaching end-of-life. Many advices from people wishing to replace their fastest Portable Hard Drive Storage. I remarked (but I cannot give my own opinion here):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hypershop.com\/shop\/\">HyperDrive<\/a> <strong>HD80<\/strong> (internally and externally similar to PD70X; probably condemned in the short term, too)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hypershop.com\/shop\/\">HyperDrive<\/a> <strong>SPACE<\/strong> (well received by the press; very positive article in March 2007 <em>Chasseur d&#8217;Images<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastgear.com\/\">NeXto CF Ultra<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thanks J\u00e9r\u00f4me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For me, the CompactDrive PD70X is still a marvellous machine when you want to copy your flash memory cards onto portable hard disc storage. It still owns the speed record and it behaves like a camel when it comes to electric energy. Today, I learned a few interesting informations that I want to share with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,19,8,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo","category-photo-safari","category-use-your-dslr","category-wildlife-photo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}