On 1/14/07, Thibouille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The problem Boris, is that the yyyX (the card speed) thing is very > theoretical. > > First if I remember it is read speed. In a camera you (mostly) don't > care. Write speed are slower of course but the yyyX thing doesn't tell > you anything about write speed. > > Second, Sandisk 133x will probably (but I'm convinced) be quite faster > than Transcend 150x. It's like batteries... Good brands hold the > charge, some do not. And I agree the good ones are not always the > "big" brands. Cards are the same, Brands wit recognition like Sandisk > will be conservative in their marketing. Transcend doesn't care and > could market a 120x card as being 150x. I really wouldn't be > surprised. > > Just my 2 cents..
Well, I just bought 2 SanDisk Extreme III x133 cards. Their writing is very noticeably (probably at least twice as slow) slower than that 150x card. I shall have to use them and see how they work over time. -- Boris -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
