Looking for inexpensive but good CF card

[anandasim]

Embarrassed to say I rolled over my fav Sandisk Extreme III 8Gb card with the castors of my chair - there's a time for everything, I guess. Has anyone seen good deals on inexpensive CF cards - the usual 4 and 8 Gb Flash USB sticks have gone down in price but I supposed high speed CF are not so easily discounted.....

[RDee]

Ananda,

It looks like you pay for performance.

I'm not sure how Extreme 60MB/s compares with Extreme III 40MB/s but here are two offerings. Could be a Father's day offering?

http://www.citysoftware.com.au/SanDisk_ ... N0210.aspx

http://www.memorysuppliers.com/sandisk- ... 2-901.html

RDee

[anandasim]

Ananda,

It looks like you pay for performance.

I'm not sure how Extreme 60MB/s compares with Extreme III 40MB/s but here are two offerings. Could be a Father's day offering?

http://www.citysoftware.com.au/SanDisk_ ... N0210.aspx

http://www.memorysuppliers.com/sandisk- ... 2-901.html

RDee

Thanks RDee. If I remember correctly, the Extreme III price is about the same as what I paid a couple of years ago. Extreme IV is UltraDMA for the high cost camera bodies. I don't think my bodies (an OIympus E-510, E-330) are anywhere demanding of media speed - they have a buffer that makes any card feel fast enough - but when you exceed the buffer, I guess the speed of the card matters - I'm not into sports action so even pedestrian Sandisk Ultra II does not seem bad.

[RDee]

Ananda,

There are 6 left of these Ultra II :
http://www.citysoftware.com.au/SanDisk_ ... N0037.aspx

RDee

[Bob]

G'Day Ananda,
after having quite a few Sandisk CF cards die, I couldn't recommend them at all. When these card died I replaced them with Lexar CF cards an have had no problem with those at all, I got a few 133X and a couple of 300X UDMA cards.
The only problem with the UDMA cards, is that the UDMA reader required me putting an 800 Firewire 1394B card into my PC.

I don't know how Firewire 800 compares with the new USB3 speed, but it is a lot faster than USB2, but time will tell I suppose.

Bob

[anandasim]

Thanks Bob, RDee.

The Ultra IIs are not bad for AUD 46 - I'm not toting a Nikon D3 or a Canon 1DS so UDMA won't be necessary for a long while.

Bob, I crushed my Sandisk with the castors of my chair (very bright, I am) otherwise it would still work. Sandisk feels like an "old" brand and Lexar feels more "new gen" in the way they package their advertising and logos. Neither have given me trouble. I even have a pedestrian AData that works......

Thanks for dropping by....