Comments on: The fastest card!

By: terrywhite

terrywhite — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:40:17 +0000

If you’re not shooting sports or other high speed action, then it’s probably not worth it.

By: ToddDenver

ToddDenver — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:08:01 +0000

All this talk of faster & faster write-speeds, 200x, 300x & now 600x…. (30, 45 & 60MB per second.)
Can my camera even take advantage of these super-fast write-speeds?
I know that my older DSLR (Nikon D200) could not; but I’m not sure about the newest DSLR bodies; including my new D300S.
The camera ‘manual’ says that 300x cards (up to 16GB) have been tested and are approved for use. But does that mean that the camera is really able to fully use the 45MB second speeds or is it just compatible?
I’ll pay a bit more for super-fast cards (Sandisk’s ‘new’ 600x or for the Hoodman product) but wish I knew if my camera was really taking advantage of their capability…? {Or if I’m just wasting money; like when I was using 300x cards with my D200.}
I called Nikon and they won’t ’say’ (tell you) what the exact write-speed capability is… Go Figure… ;-(

P.S. I used cards that were much larger {4GB+} than what was ‘approved’ in my older D200 and they worked just fine. So using that ’same logic’ will a 32GB card work just fine in my D300S; even though (only) a 16GB card had been tested at the time that the camera was released for sale???

By: Dorset Wedding Photographer

Dorset Wedding Photographer — Thu, 14 May 2009 00:06:20 +0000

Great information to know

By: greg

greg — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:26:57 +0000

UDMA cards are also supported by the EOS 1ds mark III.

I also disagree that read speeds aren’t important.
In some ways, as long as my card is fast enough for my buffer i’d prefer a fast read speed to get them onto my pc faster

By: Photo News Today » Blog Archive » Super fast CF reader for your desktop

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 18:06:24 +0000

[...] that I did a series of tests using the Synchrotech ExpressCard CF Reader. That also led me to do a series of tests on different brands of CompactFlash cards to see which ones were the fastest. Iâ€™m still quite pleased with my ExpressCard reader and my [...]

By: Bob Turcotte

Bob Turcotte — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:47:05 +0000

At the current time, the only cameras that truly take full advantage of the enhanced UDMA write speed are the Nikon D3 and D300, where an Extreme IV card is required in order to reach the maximum specified “buffer” depth..

By: Robert Lewis

Robert Lewis — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 03:13:20 +0000

Boy choices n choices we need to make! I am also a proud D-300 owner. Need to purchase one of those CF cards. I’m looking at 8gb ones. How about Kingston 8gb 266x card? would this also be a good one? Should I stick with Lexar 8gb UDMA 300x or Sandisk 8gb Extreme IV?

Those are from B & H photo that I plan to order from. Your feedback/advise would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you

By: J.T. Tillman

J.T. Tillman — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 04:21:07 +0000

Terry,

I have a Nikon D70 camera. Will the SanDisk Extreme IV Compact Flash card work with this camera?

By: Chuck Steenburgh

Chuck Steenburgh — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 19:28:34 +0000

Terry,

Nobody uses card readers/adapters to write their files – they use cameras. How about doing some write tests with a CAMERA before declaring a winner?

Chuck

By: terrywhite

terrywhite — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 15:43:13 +0000

UPDATE: I did finally get a hold of a NEW Lexar Professional UDMA 2GB 300x speed card and the results are:
Write 1.1GB
42.4 seconds
Read 1.1GB
38.4 seconds

So it is slightly faster on the read, but slower on the write. So depending on how you look at it, this may be the best choice. Since you’re usually not writing that many images that fast (unless you’re doing sports photography), you probably spend most of your time downloading images. If that’s the case you can’t go wrong with the faster Lexar media.

By: David Drufke

David Drufke — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 03:30:01 +0000

For us high volume shooters, read speed is much more important that write speed. With my compact flash cards, data is only written to them in the camera, and any camera I’m using that’s fast enough to take advantage of these ultrafast cards also has a buffer I’ll never fill, even shooting RAW.

FYI, my Thunderbolt ($12) USB CF reader gets 17.5Mb/s and transfer 205 NEF files (1.1GB) in 66 seconds from a Extreme III card, and in 62 seconds from a generic Microcenter 266x card. Too bad the reader is discontinued.

By: Jason D. Moore Photography » Blog Archive » P&P Weekly: #57

Jason D. Moore Photography » Blog Archive » P&P Weekly: #57 — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 11:57:22 +0000

[...] Terry of Terry Whiteâ€™s Tech Blog has found the winner of his card speed tests. [...]

By: terrywhite

terrywhite — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 15:14:43 +0000

Jeff,
Scott just ordered the Synchrotech. As soon as he gets it we will do a comparison. However, the Delkin operates at slower speeds. Looking at their site, they claim 20mbs:
http://www.delkin.com/products/adapters/expresscard34/
Synchrotech claims 2.5Gbs.
http://www.synchrotech.com/
Synchrotech does offer a slower/cheaper one that would be more in line with the Delkin reader:
http://www.synchrotech.com/products-expc/expresscard-memory-card-adapters_01-compactflash.html

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 14:58:55 +0000

Terry,
I know that Scott is using the Expresscard CF adapter from Delkin. Do you have any comparisons between that unit and the Syncrotech? Or is the Delkin one of those devices that you said was operating at USB2 speeds?
Jeff

By: terrywhite

terrywhite — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 23:40:52 +0000

Mike,
I don’t have any other Lexar cards. I will buy one and report back soon. As far as other readers go, the Synchrotech reader is the only one that I know of that operates at the PCIe speeds. The other ExpressCard readers operate at USB speeds.