CF Write speeds I need help

[Agaric]

Could anybody tell me a little or a lot about the write speeds of CF cards. I know it sounds like an 80x would be way faster than a 4x but is it really that fast? I don't shoot sports or have a real need for speed- although I do like to have better than average equipment.
I have just 2 cards now and I am going to assume that they are slow cards just due to the price I paid for them. I want to buy some 1GB cards and need direction.
Also does anybody know the speed of these 2 cards or where I could look it up?
PNY 256 (# on back is -->mc12c2561my1)
SanDisk 512 no other info on the label
currently it takes appoximately 5 seconds to write a raw file to my 512mb card. Is that Good/Average/Terrible?
Any help or links would be greatly appreciated.
:wink:

[commando]

Have a look at this (http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canoneos300d/page10.asp) and this (http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canoneos20d/page12.asp).

I bought a Sandisk Ultra II card, it's 60X or 66X I think, the highest i've ever seen is 80X. I didn't bother looking for an 80X, I figure the camera will be the limiting factor over a certain speed.

[robertwgross]

Different cameras write at different speeds. So, five seconds per RAW file doesn't mean much without knowing what camera did it.

---Bob Gross---

[Agaric]

I have the 300D ----see list below :lol: ya I just changed that

[pcasciola]

On the 300D the CF card speed doesn't make as much of a difference as it does on faster cameras, but you could see a slight speed improvement with the fastest card. Rob Galbraith shows the slower cards at around 900MB/sec, and the fastest at 1.3MB/sec. If your RAWs are about 7MB, 5 seconds is about the best you are going to do.

Where you would see a bigger difference is in the transfer to your PC, assuming you are using a USB 2.0 or firewire reader.

Here's a link:
http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/multi_page.asp?cid=6007-6425

[Agaric]

Where you would see a bigger difference is in the transfer to your PC, assuming you are using a USB 2.0 or firewire reader.

Here's a link:
http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/multi_page.asp?cid=6007-6425

I don't have USB 2.0 (middle aged HP PC) but that is one of the many things I am looking at when I get my new puter - hopefully a G4 laptop so I can take it to work. Now all I need to do is sell some body parts or something like that to pay for it.

Thanks for the link that helps me out a bunch! You probably saved me a bunch of money that I didn't need to spend at this time.

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