Quality of CF Cards

pangzzz · 10th April 2005

hello everyone,

was looking ard for a 1gig CF card at sls and i noticed that Kingston and Sandisk are the most common ones available.

My own experience is that sandisk is a more reliable brand, as i used to have a kingston card which was damaged like a week after i had it.

so i was wondering what do you guys think? which brand would u recommend? i dun think i need a really high speed one. and also i noticed the prices of the two brands differ quite alot. for a 1gig Kingston CF High speed card, it can cost the same as a normal 1gig Sandisk CF.

my budget would ard $120.

appreciate your valuable opinons here!

cheers,
maximillian

eric69 · 10th April 2005

Originally Posted by pangzzz

hello everyone,

was looking ard for a 1gig CF card at sls and i noticed that Kingston and Sandisk are the most common ones available.

My own experience is that sandisk is a more reliable brand, as i used to have a kingston card which was damaged like a week after i had it.

so i was wondering what do you guys think? which brand would u recommend? i dun think i need a really high speed one. and also i noticed the prices of the two brands differ quite alot. for a 1gig Kingston CF High speed card, it can cost the same as a normal 1gig Sandisk CF.

my budget would ard $120.

appreciate your valuable opinons here!

cheers,
maximillian

Please explain how your Kingston CF card can be damaged, when CF cards are flash memory devices (soild state electronic)? There's no mechanical parts or whatsoever for it to be damaged?

Anyway, I'll go for Lexar and Kingston because I personally have good experience with these brands. Scandisk is good too.

pangzzz · 10th April 2005

the card kept displaying the corrupted message on my camera and the computer couldnt read the card, brought it back to the dealer and i switched over the sandisk.

scramblur11 · 11th April 2005

actually wat type of cam u using? If u just using a normal P&S, just get a norm speed card will do liao...since it will nt be able to utilise the full speed of the card....

but if u using the newer DSLR, might wan to consider the higher speed card...right now eastgear selling the lexar pro 80x 1G at $149 onli......

reliable brands are like kingston, sandisk and lexar.... u might wan to consider lexar and kingston coz the tech support in spore not bad....their distributor is in SLS, called convergent....alot of ppl here manage to change their spoiled card without much of a hussle actually....

10th April 2005	#1
pangzzz Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Bishan Posts: 67	Quality of CF Cards hello everyone, was looking ard for a 1gig CF card at sls and i noticed that Kingston and Sandisk are the most common ones available. My own experience is that sandisk is a more reliable brand, as i used to have a kingston card which was damaged like a week after i had it. so i was wondering what do you guys think? which brand would u recommend? i dun think i need a really high speed one. and also i noticed the prices of the two brands differ quite alot. for a 1gig Kingston CF High speed card, it can cost the same as a normal 1gig Sandisk CF. my budget would ard $120. appreciate your valuable opinons here! cheers, maximillian

11th April 2005	#4
scramblur11 Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Sembawang Posts: 881	actually wat type of cam u using? If u just using a normal P&S, just get a norm speed card will do liao...since it will nt be able to utilise the full speed of the card.... but if u using the newer DSLR, might wan to consider the higher speed card...right now eastgear selling the lexar pro 80x 1G at $149 onli...... reliable brands are like kingston, sandisk and lexar.... u might wan to consider lexar and kingston coz the tech support in spore not bad....their distributor is in SLS, called convergent....alot of ppl here manage to change their spoiled card without much of a hussle actually....