My Extreme III cards frequently fail to mount in my month-old ImageMate 12-in-1 reader. I usually have to insert the card a second time and give it a little shove. A bit annoying. Paul
On Mar 28, 2007, at 9:08 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > Speaking of cards ... > > I found an excellent deal on Extreme III 2Gbyte cards and a Sandisk > Extreme III reader so I went for it ... two 2G cards and a USB 2.0 > reader for CF and SD/SDHC cards for $60. It just arrived today. > > I haven't had much time to do testing but did a little so far: > > - All the SD cards (Transcend 150x, Sandisk Ultra II and Sandisk > Extreme III) mount, read and write without errors in the new reader > unit. > > - The Extreme III cards occasionally fail to mount in the now two > year old Sandisk ImageMate 12-in-1 reader. None of the Ultra II or > Transcend cards have ever had any problems with that reader. > > A quick check of read and write speeds, using the Extreme III reader > and Mac OS X's Activity monitor to watch throughput shows about what > I expected: the Extreme III cards demonstrate on average about 10-15% > better performance than the Transcend 150x. In the K10D, the Extreme > III cards achieve 10 exposures, capturing RAW/PEF format on > continuous vs the Transcend 150x 9 exposures before slowing down due > to buffer full conditions. > > Perhaps tomorrow I'll set up and do another camera test run like I > did for the Ultra II and Transcend 150x, add it to the performance > web page I posted a while back .. > http://homepage.mac.com/godders/Pentax-DS-150x-timing/ > > Godfrey > > -- > 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
