Faster Memory Card: Sandisk Ultra II or Lexar w WA ?

I have been using a 1 gb Lexar Pro compact flash memory card in my Nikon
d70s and am eyeing a new, larger 2 gb Sandisk Ultra II as a replacement.
The Lexar card utilizes WA technology and claims "80x"transfer speeds. The
packaging on the Sandisk card seems to indicate up to only 60x or 66x
transfer rates. Can I compare these to each other, and if so, does that
make the Lexar the faster of the two?

- Magnusfarce

On Jun 13, 5:04 pm, "Magnusfarce" <magnusfarce...@earthlink.net>
wrote:

> The Lexar card utilizes WA technology and claims "80x"transfer speeds. The
> packaging on the Sandisk card seems to indicate up to only 60x or 66x
> transfer rates. Can I compare these to each other, and if so, does that
> make the Lexar the faster of the two?


Yes. The 80x card is saying that it is 80/60 or 1.3x faster than the
Sandisk 60x card.

Whether it actually is in practice is another matter. They measure
under the most favorable of conditions and assumptions in deriving
that number.

"Magnusfarce" <magnusfarce762@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:QLudnclaN9S0G-3bnZ2dnUVZ_tqnnZ2d@adelphia.com...
>I have been using a 1 gb Lexar Pro compact flash memory card in my Nikon
>d70s and am eyeing a new, larger 2 gb Sandisk Ultra II as a replacement.
>The Lexar card utilizes WA technology and claims "80x"transfer speeds. The
>packaging on the Sandisk card seems to indicate up to only 60x or 66x
>transfer rates. Can I compare these to each other, and if so, does that
>make the Lexar the faster of the two?
>
> - Magnusfarce
>
Check the following link:

http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/mul...?cid=6007-7906

It shows the read and write speeds of the D70 with a variety of CF cards.

Ron

On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 05:25:47 -0500, "Ron Recer" <ron48@aol.com> wrote:

>
>"Magnusfarce" <magnusfarce762@earthlink.net> wrote in message
>news:QLudnclaN9S0G-3bnZ2dnUVZ_tqnnZ2d@adelphia.com...
>>I have been using a 1 gb Lexar Pro compact flash memory card in my Nikon
>>d70s and am eyeing a new, larger 2 gb Sandisk Ultra II as a replacement.
>>The Lexar card utilizes WA technology and claims "80x"transfer speeds. The
>>packaging on the Sandisk card seems to indicate up to only 60x or 66x
>>transfer rates. Can I compare these to each other, and if so, does that
>>make the Lexar the faster of the two?
>>
>> - Magnusfarce
>>
>Check the following link:
>
>http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/mul...?cid=6007-7906
>
>It shows the read and write speeds of the D70 with a variety of CF cards.
>
>Ron
>

A much better test is being done with advanced Canon P&S cameras running CHDK,
where the speed of the card is tested directly in the camera using CHDK's
benchmark feature. This is independent of any card-reader, USB port, or computer
speed. Pure camera-to-card ratings. You can read some of the test results of
various cards in various Canon cameras here:

http://scratchpad.wikia.com/wiki/CHDK/Benchmarks

It is interesting in how you can greatly increase the speed of some 4 GB cards
by giving them a non-standard FAT16 format. This may, however, make them
incompatible with your camera or other software. I run a 4GB FAT16 card in my
camera for a month now with zero errors.

To format a 4GB card in FAT16, refer to the CHDK FAQ section:

http://scratchpad.wikia.com/wiki/CHD..._at_startup.3F

Along with my new Canon SD1000 for father's day,
I received a Sandisk 2GB SD card.

Don't have any other SD cards, so these are new to us.

SanDisk doesn't list the "speed" of the standard SDSDB-2048-A10 card.
In reading some other threads, it seems like the write speed
might be at a fixed rate set by the camera, vs the card's capability.

SO - what's the deal with these Ultra or Extreme SD cards ??
Also - the SanDisk cards seem twice the cost of others from Kingston, etc