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I picked up a Hyperdrive HD80 for dumping Compact Flash cards from my DSLR in the field. This thing dumps a card faster than any other device out there. Unfortunately, the build quality is awful, the case is shoddy and the doors on either end are sloppy. Furthermore, after only dumping one card I managed to break it.
After installing a formatting the hard disk I tried copying some CF cards. The first card copied fine (very fast!) so I removed the card and tried to copy a second one.
While inserting the second card something felt wrong, it wouldn't insert all the way. I removed the card and looked in the slot to find one of the pins had been bent. I was careful to align the CF card with the rails and inset the card straight. The bent pin was longer than the other pins in the connector; this leads me to suspect that this pin was loose to begin with and when the first card was removed it was pulled up by the card. When the second card was inserted the alignment was not perfect on this longer pin and it was crushed.
