It's time... Carbon... meet Canon EOS350D / Rebel XT

So I haven't used my Beta Carbon for a while, and got to thinking there is a nice phat 5gb microdrive in there, which would come in handy in my soon to arrive Canon EOS350D....

I haven't pulled apart the Carbon yet, and since it's a beta unit, I guess it will also have the ST1 drive in it that will work in a camera?
I've been reading various forums where people cannot get the newer (Carbon ST1 drives) working in a camera... also there have been discussions on the (lack of) speed of these drives..

Anyone tried this, what the performance of the drive like?

I think you should first ask the question of whether you want to trust your photos to a 5GB microdrive. Given the relative reliability of microdrives to flash and the price of 1GB compact flash nowadays I would far prefer to use two 1GB CF cards than a 5GB microdrive.

In fact, even if someone gave me a 5GB microdrive for free, I still wouldn't use it in my camera.

To answer you actual question, your couple of years old microdrive is likely to be quite a bit slower than a decent speed CF card. Even the recent microdrives are slower than CF:

http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/multi_page.asp?cid=6007-7699

Do you actually need 5GB card ? Unless you are going to be shooting RAW+JPEG all of the time and shooting many hundreds of photos a day you won't need 5GB.

Quote:
Seagate ST1 5GB
(Model: ST650211CF) Seagate II 2005/3/28 excluded from testing15 excluded from testing15

15 Midway through testing, this card was accidentally dropped from a height of no more than 2 inches onto a wooden desk. The drop was fatal.

Lol well that's very helpfull!....