Subject: Re: CF Vendors
To: Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com>
From: Erik Berls <cyber@ono-sendai.com>
List: tech-embed
Date: 07/01/2007 19:42:12
I guess I'll have to play around with this.  Maybe attempt to burn out
a card before actually deploying it.

(I've got a 2G Kingston, and a 1G Corsair in my camera.  I tend to
only use those vendors for RAM, with a bias towards the Corsair.)

But thanks for the link!  It was interesting to note that the 150x vs
133x cards they covered came in at about the same performance.

-=erik.


On 7/1/07, Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com> wrote:
>   I'm swapping out the hard drives in my Cobalt Raq2's with CF cards in
>   order to make them a little cooler, and a little quieter.   I was
>   browsing through Newegg and came across a vendor that was selling CF
>   cards that were listed as 266x, 40MB/s.  The vendor is A-DATA.
>
>   Anyone have any experience with them?  None of the other big names
>   (SanDisk, Kingston) had anything available above 133x.
>
> I pay attention to CF for digital cameras, and have never considered
> anything other than sandisk and lexar, and basically just order sandisk
> Extreme III these days.  I am highly suspicious of the A-DATA name and
> 40 MB/s.   The Sandisk E3 seems to do 9 MB/s to a DOS filesystem when
> written by the camera (which is really all that counts for that use).
>
> See
>
>   http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/multi_page.asp?cid=6007
>
> for a camera-centric review.
>