Contrary to my "less than satifactory" experience with microdrives in my Dell Axim 5, I have had nothing by the best of experience with memory cards - a number of differenct Sandisks and "CompactFlash Cards", BSA, MR FLASH, CompUSA, Nikor, and Kingston cards and . In fact I have never had a problem.

Right now I am using a 1GB SD card - Sandisk- and a 1GB CF card also Sandisk - NO PROBLEM AT ALL.

After using a 32MB SD Kingston SD Card for couple of months, I upgraded to a 512MB Kingston SD Card. All I did was copy the 32MB data to my computer via external read/writer (USB) and copy back to the 512MB card. The 512MB card worked immediately on installation - just poke it in the slot. I have used the 512MB Kingston card since last December.

I just aquired a 1GB CF Card - Sandisk - and did the same thing - copy the 512MB card data to the computer, copy it back to the 1GB CF card - Sandisk. and poke it in - instant success.

What I have found via Pocket Mechanic "Benchmarks" is that the avg seek time for the 1GB Sandisk SD card is avg. read time is 5.03ms and the 1GB Sandisk CF card shows an avg. read time of 2.76 ms, Each card has approx 50% of capacity filled with data.

So there is my experience with memory cards -

Did you benchmark the Kingston SD cards out of interest?

Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

   

I just ran the Pocket Mechanic Benchmark test on a Kingston 512MB SD Card and the avg. read time was .75ms - quite a bit faster than the 1GB Sandisk SD card I reported earlier this evening. Also much more comparable to the CF cards I have benchmarked.

The 512MB SD card had about 150 MB of data on it.

Inquiring minds want to know!