Extremely cheap 8 gigabyte

Discussion

7 replies

Posted by Phillip Tomkinson on January 30, 2007 at 9:40 AM

CompactFlash cards from here.

Phillip.

http://ukdvdr.co.uk/shop/Datawrite-8Gb-Hi-Speed-160x-Compact-Flash-pr-18769.html

Posted by Chas Spradbery on January 30, 2007 at 11:31 AM

That is an amazing price assuming they are any good...

Posted by Kevin Lewis on January 30, 2007 at 1:03 PM

seems like an awful lot of eggs to put in one basket. If it fails you could lose around 1000 images shooting in raw. I use 2Gb sandisk CF cards that hold about 180-190 images and even with these I worry about a card failing

Posted by Phillip Tomkinson on January 31, 2007 at 5:44 AM

While I ordered one and it arrived at 9AM this morning I formatted it in my PC and then ran a few speed tests it's about the same speed as a 80 speed normal card it seems to be about half as fast as my lexar 133 extremes 3 it works perfectly in my d200 & d2x also it downloads perfectly well from my FireWire card reader, some of my cards get hot when I use my card reader but this stays cool I now can take just over 600 uncompressed NEF's on my D2x.

Phillip.

Posted by Tim Munsey on January 31, 2007 at 6:06 AM

Good news Phillip, expect mine will arrive today.

Tim

Posted by Phillip Tomkinson on January 31, 2007 at 6:29 AM

Hi Tim I hope it does, have just try to order another one for my friend but there appears to be none left, there is some four gig ones at £27 still a bargain.

Phillip.

Posted by Tom_W on January 31, 2007 at 8:54 AM

Just ordered a 4G for £27 for a backup of the best images from the Photoviewer (from a prolonged sortee into the field). Easily slipped in the top pocket as Paul Hobson suggested - a good tip. That means I have belt, braces and Back-up of the best.

T

Posted by Major Gilbert on February 1, 2007 at 6:35 AM

Just got my card this morning no problems.
Life time guarantee + cards still available in 8 GB.

Major.