2GB 60X CF Card $12.99 AR @ Outpost.com

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Stumbled upon this deal. Unless you have a blazing fast DSLR, the speed is more than adequate and the final price is very good.

2GB 60X CF Card

Cheers!
 

imported_dani

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Cold.... You can get a 2GB SD without rebate and free shipping for about $18. Works out to be a better deal.
 

estew33

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Originally posted by: dani
Cold.... You can get a 2GB SD without rebate and free shipping for about $18. Works out to be a better deal.

My ? is where ?
 

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I've bought two of these from Fry. PQI's 60x rating is misleading; using Sisoft for benchmarking, the highest speed I got was 50x (reading). The highest writing speed was 29x on one, and 21x on the other. Cheap, yes; speedy, not really. Bigger-name manufacturers, such as Kingston, use the minimum sustained writing speed for rating.
 

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Originally posted by: jlin101
I've bought two of these from Fry. PQI's 60x rating is misleading; using Sisoft for benchmarking, the highest speed I got was 50x (reading). The highest writing speed was 29x on one, and 21x on the other. Cheap, yes; speedy, not really. Bigger-name manufacturers, such as Kingston, use the minimum sustained writing speed for rating.

As I stated in the original post, this wouldn't be my first choice if I had a fast dslr but for digicams and bulk storage applications (MP3 players, PDA's, etc.) this is more than adequate. It is extremely rare for a digicam to tax the speed of a memory card. The bottleneck is the camera itself, not the media.

BTW, from all the tests I have read, every flash manufacturer (Kingston, Lexar, SanDisk, etc.) overstates the speed of their media or rate it under conditions that have no bearing in the real world. Some avoid the whole issue and use meaningless terms such as "Ultra", "Elite", "Extreme", etc. I am surprised Mon$ter Cable$ hasn't jumped into this market.

Bottom line, this is cheap memory for the masses.