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Originally posted by jlp
For the foreseeable future and well beyond, CF flash memory cards will always be:- much faster - up to 80x now already, I think fast SD cards are in the 10x
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could not be further from the truth. typical high speed SD cards are advertised at around 32X, I think the fastest Sandisk (Ultra II) is 60X(?). 10X is a
standard SD
and CF card write speed. (Read speeds are faster than write speeds for pretty much all memory.) You can get fast CF cards, and the fastest CF may be faster than the fastest SD, but you will pay a pretty penny for it, as you will for high speed SD.
And my SimpleTech 512MB SD card--not a high-speed card, just regular SD--out-ran a Lexar 40X professional CF card in my USB 2.0 card reader. (Write test.) The SimpleTech was a full MB/sec faster than the Lexar, which is supposedly capable of ~7MB/sec sustained write speeds.
see my thread in the X5 general discussion board for more details.
Mildly agree with your other points, though. I think it is a bit early to write off CF as a memory and IO format.