24 Apr
2012
24 Apr
'12
11:21 a.m.
On Apr 24, 2012, at 2:01 PM, feldman.r at comcast.net wrote:
That's actually pretty expensive (it is an office supply store, so I'm
not really that surprised). You can usually get them on Amazon for a
great deal less; I think I got a 16GB CF card for our Scotland trip for
around $25 there. I've never had a hard time finding CF cards.
Regarding their usability as disk drives, though (something Eric Smith
was pointing out), some of our embedded customers use purpose-built CF
cards that are meant to be used as embedded drives (specifically, they
are using Western Digital's SiliconDisk line). I wonder if their
performance is improved over standard CompactFlash for ATA hard drive
operations; I never ran too many benchmarks.
- Dave
From: Dave
McGuire < mcguire at neurotica.com >
On 04/23/2012 05:59 PM, joe lobocki wrote:
I was just at my local Office Depot (a chain of large office supply stores, for those not
in the US) in downtown Chicago and they have Lexar 4 GB CF cards for $25 and 8 GB cards
for $40, in stock. I use a SD to CF adapter in my canon digital
rebel without an issue, as I
can no longer find CF (I also haven't tried a camera store but they are
probably a ripoff...)
Where do you live that you cannot find CF cards?! That's insane. I
bought a handful a couple of weeks ago, and the guy I'm crashing with
here in FL this week has three brand new ones sitting on his kitchen table.