I looked high and low for any details on the speed of that card and couldn't find any numbered speed rating. Given that, I would say it's probably the normal 8x speed. As fulltext said above, if you need speed I would return it for refund and shop elsewhere. I just ordered a 1Gig 60x Kingmax SD card from
www.newegg.com for $74, which is less than $10 more than the SanDisk 1Gig 8x that they also sell. I figure for less than ten bucks I'll go with the faster card.