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Ritek and Ridata compact flash cards

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msgtb

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I am looking to buy some 512 mb compact flash for the dimage 7I which I just purchased. It appears to me that the Ritek has a slight edge in the write speed catagory? I would like to hear your opinions. I also would like to know if Ritek and Ridata are made by the same company?

Thanks

Dave🙂
 
I just purchased a 256MB(note, they rate it as 1 MB = 10^6 bytes.. so it's ~244 MiB.. i think that's the new "correct" notation) RiDATA card. Unfortunately I had to send my digital camera back before I could test it out. Using it with a generic firewire compact flash reader using iometer, and hand measurements it averaged out to be:

read: Ave. 4.54 MB/s Min 4.2 MB/s Max 5.44)
write: Ave. 3.16 MB/s (almost always near this) Min 3.14 MB/s Max 3.16 MB/s
(using 1 MB = 10^6 Bytes)

Minimum results occured with a synthetic test of writing/reading a series of 128KB files.

my results fall in the ballpark with this review:
http://www.dpreview.com/articles/mediacompare/

I'm not sure if ritek or ridata cards are made by the same company. Ritek's website is http://www.ritek.com.tw/ritek_e/index.htm
I'm sure someone there knows the correct answer ;P. I've sent an e-mail off to them, i'll reply if I get an answer.

update: This was a response from someone at ritek 😛

From: mingolin@ritek.com.tw
Hi,

Yes. RITEK apply RIDATA brand in flash card business.
You can visit our web-site :
http://www.ritek.com.tw/

Best Regards,
Mingo Lin
 
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