RE: New SD Card Arrived - Joy Disappointment

2006-03-24 Thread Shel Belinkoff
This morning I received a surprise from Newegg, the store from which I bought the SD card. They have sent me a free gift. Gee, for a $45.00 purchase that's amazing. The tracking info says the package weighs in at between 1- and 2-lbs. I wonder what it could be ;-)) Shel

RE: New SD Card Arrived - Joy Disappointment

2006-03-23 Thread Tom C
And you're complaining about a few seconds or minutes when it used to take at minimum an hour, if not a day or multiple days to get film back? Shame on you. ;-) Tom C. From: Shel Belinkoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Subject: New

Re: New SD Card Arrived - Joy Disappointment

2006-03-23 Thread Mat Maessen
The thing to remember is that, just like the camera, the card reader has a maximum speed that it will read/write to the card. So you're right, a better card reader will read and write faster than an older/crappier one. I just ordered a small SD card reader/jump drive for $6. We'll see how fast it

Re: New SD Card Arrived - Joy Disappointment

2006-03-23 Thread David Oswald
Mat Maessen wrote: The thing to remember is that, just like the camera, the card reader has a maximum speed that it will read/write to the card. So you're right, a better card reader will read and write faster than an older/crappier one. I just ordered a small SD card reader/jump drive for $6.

Re: New SD Card Arrived - Joy Disappointment

2006-03-23 Thread John Francis
On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 09:46:43AM -0800, David Oswald wrote: Mat Maessen wrote: The thing to remember is that, just like the camera, the card reader has a maximum speed that it will read/write to the card. So you're right, a better card reader will read and write faster than an

Re: New SD Card Arrived - Joy Disappointment

2006-03-23 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
That sounds like you're getting the same throughput as I see with a Belkin USB 2.0 card reader and a 2G Sandisk Ultra II CF card: about 5 minutes for a complete, full card download. The differential from USB 2.0 to USB 1.1 is typically about 30-40x in transfer time. Cardbus should allow a

Re: New SD Card Arrived - Joy Disappointment

2006-03-23 Thread Adam Maas
The Kingston cards aren't nearly as fast as an Ultra II. Which is where the performance bottleneck comes in. The Kingston cards (I've got a 1GB CF unit) are solidly middle of the road for performance. -Adam Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: That sounds like you're getting the same throughput as I see

Re: New SD Card Arrived - Joy Disappointment

2006-03-23 Thread John Francis
Mine (an Elite Pro 2GB) claims to be a 50x card. The comparison tests Shel posted recently measured this card at 9.6MB/Sec - not the 12.5MB/Sec of the fastest cards, perhaps, but a little better than middle-of-the-road if you ask me. In any case, it's more than fast enough for my *ist-D, and I'm

Re: New SD Card Arrived - Joy Disappointment

2006-03-23 Thread Aaron Reynolds
On Mar 23, 2006, at 4:27 PM, Adam Maas wrote: The Kingston cards aren't nearly as fast as an Ultra II. Which Kingston cards -- the slow ones or the fast ones? -Aaron

Re: New SD Card Arrived - Joy Disappointment

2006-03-23 Thread Adam Maas
Aaron Reynolds wrote: On Mar 23, 2006, at 4:27 PM, Adam Maas wrote: The Kingston cards aren't nearly as fast as an Ultra II. Which Kingston cards -- the slow ones or the fast ones? -Aaron The fast ones. Good, but not spectacular, unlike the Ultra II, which is typically one of the