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All posts tagged "CompactFlash"


Tuesday, March 18, 2008

32 Glorious Gigabytes of CompactFlash Storage: A-DATA's Massive Marvel

Posted by Jason Dunn in "Digital Home Hardware & Accessories" @ 07:30 AM




A-DATA has been making news lately for their amazingly low-priced, high-capacity CompactFlash (CF) cards, namely their 32 GB CF card that retails for $133.99 USD from stores such as NewEgg. While CompactFlash as a memory card format is on the decline, eclipsed by various flavours of Secure Digital cards (primarily SD and microSD), there are still a large number of devices out there with CF slots. I shoot with a Nikon D300 DSLR, which has a CF slot and RAW images that are 13+ MB in size, so I was eager to put this massive card to the test. There are also still a few Windows Mobile devices on the market that feature a CF slot, such as the HP iPAQ 210, so I wanted to check compatibility and performance on such devices.

The first thing to realize about the A-DATA card is that while it's branded with the word "speedy" on the front, there's no number beside it – this card makes no claims about being 160x, 80x, or even 40x. It's not built for speed – like your local city bus, it's built for carrying capacity, not high-speed manoeuvres. If you want a fast card, check out one of the 305x speed rated UDMA cards from Delkin, which will run you $399 MSRP for "only" 16 GB of storage space. So while this card isn't built for speed, when you have 32 GB of space to fill up, it's important to know how long it's going to take you to transfers your files to it. Read more...


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