On Jan 13, 2007, at 6:16 PM, Digital Image Studio wrote: > The topology of the interfaces of the cards make CF far more reliable > from a technical standpoint, granted they may not offer quite the > mechanical durability of the SD system but rarely will you find > incompatibility issues with CF cards of all types in a wide array of > readers. With SD it's suck it and see.
This is a specious statement. I've experienced virtually no issues with a large volume of SD, CF, Memory Stick, and xD cards. I have used them all *a lot*. I've always purchased cards that had a good reputation: Sandisk, ATP, Transcend, Kingston, Corsair amongst others. There are lots of non-name-brand of all of them out there, many of which are junk. Buy junk and you get crappy reliability, regardless of the type of card. The primary difference between an SD card and a CF card, other than form factor, is that the CF card carries its own controller and the SD card is dependent upon the controller in the reader device. Therefore CF card readers are simpler, technically. So the same goes for the SD card readers: use a crappy one and you'll get unreliable or slow operation. Use a good one and you'll get good performance. It's really that simple. Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
