this is a quote from the link that I posted above.... I guess the Lexar would be better value for money
I recently bought a 256MB CF card from newegg.com for my Nikon 990; couldn't pass up the $90 price tag. It works fine, but it's write speed is slowwwwwwwwww. I use the "Fine" setting for most of my work, and I wait nearly 40 seconds to take each successive shot. I ended up giving the thing to my brother for his PDA. I ponied up the bigger bucks and got two Lexar Pro Series 16x 192 MB cards for about $170 each, and life is good now; lightning fast in comparison. A classic case of "getting what one pays for", I guess...