The third time’s a charm for memory maker Transcend as their new, black-labeled 300x UDMA CompactFlash cards can at last compete with the big boys in the Nikon D300.
The new cards rate a respectable score of 89 in our JPG write tests and throughput of 24 MB/sec in our RAW burst test. The card also averaged read speeds of 34-35 MB/sec under Vista SP1 with our trio of FireWire 800 readers from SanDisk, Lexar, and Delkin (actually a tad slower than the Transcend 266x card’s speeds of 35-36 MB/sec read speed).
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Transcend 4GB Compact Flash (CF) Flash Card
Transcend 8GB Compact Flash (CF) Flash Card
Transcend 16GB Compact Flash (CF) Flash Card
2 responses so far ↓
1 abbilder // Aug 14, 2008 at 5:54 pm
the Transcend 300 sounds good. But what about a the fastest non-UDMA-cards like Sandisk Extreme III 30 Mbit?
2 The Sports Photo Guy // Aug 14, 2008 at 6:40 pm
Actually, the newer, high-capacity Extreme III cards (advertised at 30 MB/sec) are in fact UDMA-enabled. I’m planning to test one of these cards soon.
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