Just a quick question about CF card speed

Which is faster? Which is better?
Sandisk 2Gb. Ultra II or Kingston 2Gb.50X elite pro? Thanks

slyone wrote in post #2300733
Which is faster? Which is better?
Sandisk 2Gb. Ultra II or Kingston 2Gb.50X elite pro? Thanks

Ultra II - have a couple of both. Only notice it when I fill the buffer.

I agree anything faster that 40X write is erevelant because the camera can't go any faster .

Thanks guys!

Just to add to the others-
I did a whole lot of research on this recently.I found that anything faster than the ultra II is wasted on the Xti,so it would certainly be the same situation for your Xt.
In case it's interesting to you -my brother has normal sandisk cards so i compared them to the ultra II.
One can tell the difference but it's not alot even between these two

Check this site out it might be informative:

http://www.robgalbrait​h.com/bins/multi_page.​asp?cid=6007

Thanks for the assistance! It seems the Sandisk writes almost 30% faster than the Kingston pro, although I believe the camera is limited anyways to just over 5MBs. Also the Sandisk has a lifetime warranty verses 3 years. Geez, the Kingston can be had for just $19.99 ARw/GCO at Buy.com verses the Ultra at Staples this Friday for just $39.99 or double...

slyone wrote in post #2301889
Thanks for the assistance! It seems the Sandisk writes almost 30% faster than the Kingston pro, although I believe the camera is limited anyways to just over 5mps. Also the Sandisk has a lifetime warranty verses 3 years. Geez, the Kingston can be had for just $19.99 ARw/GCO at Buy.com verses the Ultra at Staples this Friday for just $39.99 or double...

You do mean 5MBs???

slyone wrote in post #2301889
Thanks for the assistance! It seems the Sandisk writes almost 30% faster than the Kingston pro, although I believe the camera is limited anyways to just over 5mps. Also the Sandisk has a lifetime warranty verses 3 years. Geez, the Kingston can be had for just $19.99 ARw/GCO at Buy.com verses the Ultra at Staples this Friday for just $39.99 or double...

IMHO the lifetime warrenty is only a bit of fluff. In 3 years time you might not even be using those small capacity memory cards. Also, if you card does lose your your images, it's lost. Having any sort of lifetime warrenty won't bring your data back.

Also, again IMHO, CF card speeds are just hype. Anyone who wants to spend 2-4 times more on a fast card for cameras that can't write to the CF card much faster thant he cheap cards is free to do so. Also, those who want to spend the said amount more for cards that copy to the PC x% times faster than my cheap cards are also free to do so...I just browse this forum while my slow el-cheape card slowly copies my 2gbs of images to my PC. I'm not a pro and can wait 5 mimutes to copy 2gb's to my PC.

Ephemeral wrote in post #2302686
IMHO the lifetime warrenty is only a bit of fluff. In 3 years time you might not even be using those small capacity memory cards. Also, if you card does lose your your images, it's lost. Having any sort of lifetime warrenty won't bring your data back.

Also, again IMHO, CF card speeds are just hype. Anyone who wants to spend 2-4 times more on a fast card for cameras that can't write to the CF card much faster thant he cheap cards is free to do so. Also, those who want to spend the said amount more for cards that copy to the PC x% times faster than my cheap cards are also free to do so...I just browse this forum while my slow el-cheape card slowly copies my 2gbs of images to my PC. I'm not a pro and can wait 5 mimutes to copy 2gb's to my PC.

Sandisk (I use Extreme III 2Gb cards) do come with "RescuePRO" data recovery software on CD.

It's not only about camera write speeds to the card but also about card write speeds when downloading to the computer - that's when the faster cards prove worthwhile.
Of course if you only take a few images at a time then waiting while the images download may not be a big deal but believe me when downloading a full 4Gb card from a 1Dmk2 the time saved by the speed of the Extreme III is very welcome.

And the card will continue to be fast, or slow, when you upgrade to the next, faster, generation of camera. So if you buy the faster card now, you're giving yourself some growth room.