I had a Kingston 4G SDHC class 4 card in my camera, which I replaced with the Patriot 16G SDHC class 6 card. So I figured I'd upgrade from the Dane-Elec 2G SD card in my Treo to the Kingston card.
This caused any activity that had a sustained read/write action with the card to take frelling forever. Specific example, with the 2G card, my nightly backup would take maybe 5 minutes to write the new backup, erase the oldest one on the card and flush the cache. With the Kingston card, it was taking ~35 minutes! Same settings, same amount of data. I just replaced the Kingston with a SanDisk Ultra II 4G SDHC class 4 and it's like night and day. I just tested by manually triggering a backup, and the backup took ~2 minutes, writing and flushing only. Using a card reader on my XP desktop, both cards perform reasonably close to each other. Why the difference? (Related side note: Putting the Patriot card in the camera has speed up the camera's performance, but the Kingston card was no slower than the SanDisk Ultra II 2G SD card it replaced in there.) -- Jeffrey Kaplan www.gordol.org The from userid is killfiled Send personal mail to gordol Peter's Top 100 Things I'd Do If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord, #108. Any and all magic and/or technology that can miraculously resurrect a secondary character who has given up his/her life through self sacrifice will be outlawed and destroyed.
