Mine (an Elite Pro 2GB) claims to be a 50x card. The comparison tests Shel posted recently measured this card at 9.6MB/Sec - not the 12.5MB/Sec of the fastest cards, perhaps, but a little better than middle-of-the-road if you ask me.
In any case, it's more than fast enough for my *ist-D, and I'm mot really worried whether it takes 3 minutes or 5 minutes to download - just that I was getting a bit tired of 30 minutes. On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 04:27:41PM -0500, Adam Maas wrote: > The Kingston cards aren't nearly as fast as an Ultra II. Which is where > the performance bottleneck comes in. The Kingston cards (I've got a 1GB > CF unit) are solidly middle of the road for performance. > > -Adam > > > > Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > >That sounds like you're getting the same throughput as I see with a > >Belkin USB 2.0 card reader and a 2G Sandisk Ultra II CF card: about 5 > >minutes for a complete, full card download. > > > >The differential from USB 2.0 to USB 1.1 is typically about 30-40x in > >transfer time. Cardbus should allow a bit faster than USB 2.0, but > >often doesn't. > > > >Godfrey > > > >On Mar 23, 2006, at 12:16 PM, John Francis wrote: > > > >>I'll second that. I've just switched from a regular PCMCIA adapter, > >>which was around the same (slow) speed as my USB 1.1 connection, to > >>a nice cardbus adapter. It is, indeed, an order of magnitude faster; > >>it now takes me around 5 minutes to download a full (Kingston) 2GB card, > >>which used to take more like 45 minutes.
