Sandisk Extreme III Compactflash

[kili0fi]

First a warning, i bought Sandisk Extreme III 4 gb card. But surprise, inside it was actually 2gb card. The seller changed it promptly, but we found out that the whole batch was wrong size, so watch out if you purchase the 4 gb version. There may be more of them moving around.

So now i have the 2 gb version and i made some speed test with my laptop. It gave results, when i copied 642 mb .iso file.
sandisk extreme III cf: 93s = 6,9 mb/s :approve:
pretec trancend 60x sd: 167s =3,8 mb/s
disk-to-disk: 62s = 10,3 mb/s

The last result is from copying the file from laptop's hard disk back to same disk, just to get some idea of the hard disk speed. I used Vantec 7in1 USB 2.0 card reader and Dell Latitude D800 laptop. Sandisk advertises this as 20 mb/s write speed card, but that's a laboratory result. I think almost 7 mb/s as a practical result is still excellent.

[kili0fi]

Updating myself. I just found another post which says that the 4gb card has a small switch which selects the capacity. My 2 gb card does not seem to have any switch. And if there were a switch, why it is at 2gb position?? At least there should be a BIG note inside the package telling about it.

[Gigi]

Where did you buy this from?

[sperry]

I have an Ultra II 2GB Sandisk but It test very slow with the pocket tools speed test, and takes forever copying from the SD. (In this case, "Forever"=2 hours and it's 2/3's the 498MB file!) I hope it performs well enough for the movies like the SD card does...

[kili0fi]

Where did you buy this from?

From computer shop in Finland. I guess there are shops nearer your home, if you want to find one.. :)