The SD card reader in your X's Drive is the bottleneck. I've been using Transcend 150x 2G SD cards. Cost about $40 from Newegg.com. Seem to be faster than Sandisk Ultra II, probably about the same speed as Extreme IIIs.
Godfrey On Dec 3, 2006, at 5:34 PM, Mark Cassino wrote: > I'll be the first to say that I prefer CF cards over SD, simply > because > the SD cards feel like potato chips when I handle them and I'm afraid > I'll break 'em. Maybe I'll get over it. > > Anyhow - I I bought my K10D I with a Sandisk Extreme III 2 gig SD > card. > While it is fast to write to, it still takes about 20 minutes to > dump to > my X's Drive II. So having a second card became an imperative. > > I was in the office supply store today and saw a deal I couldn't > refuse > - a 2 gig SD card for $25 (after mail in rebates.) It's a Dane-Elec > card - not their accelerated card, but their bagain basement model. > > In a very un-scientific test: > > - The SanDisk Extreme III is at least twice as fat as the bargain > basement card in terms of write times. Once the camera buffer is full, > write-time per frame varies; but using DNG RAW files it seemed to > write > a file a second or less. The inexpensive card took a second or two per > frame once the buffer was filled. > > - After filling the buffer, the it took about 10-15 seconds to write > everything to the SanDisk. The Dane-Elec took 30-40 seconds. > > - The cards took equal time to write to an X's Drive II. > > Overall - all speeds are much faster than the *ist-D. I think the > faster > shooting speed will be of benefit for me in a few instances - from > time > to time I miss a dragonfly shot because the camera is writing to the > card - but overall I don't have a need for speed beyond 3 to 5 shots > that usually are handled by the camera buffer. > > Write time to the X's drive is a bigger issue for me - it took a solid > 20 minutes to download each card to the X's Drive II. In my past > shooting experience, downloading cards was the biggest bottle neck, > and > I'd want to make sure I had enough flash cards to wait out painfully > slow download speeds. > > At any rate - I'm asking for another Extreme III card for Xmas (unless > there is a faster card I should ask for.) > > - MCC > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > Mark Cassino Photography > Kalamazoo > www.markcassino.com > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
