On 22.08.2006, at 12:52 , Peter Loveday wrote: > Actually CompactFlash is capable of far higher speeds than SD. Not > that it > matters a whole lot, the I/O speeds on Pentax DSLRs is far from > stellar > (especially the *istD). > > Although no cards are actually capable of this kind of speed at the > moment, > the current CF spec is capable of 133MB/sec (thats "886X"), where > SD spec > (including SDHC) is only capable of 20MB/sec (133X) as far as I know. > > Still, assuming SD can evolve and increase that as card flash speeds > increase, its not that important. So far real world tests show that usually SD cards are somehat faster than their CF equivalents. See here: http://robgalbraith.com/bins/multi_page.asp?cid=6007-7344
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