adata 533x cf card?

anyone here tried the adata 533x cf cards?

i wonder if their specs are acurate and are the cards reliable.

Speed Class Speed (read) : 80 (MB/s)**
Speed (write) : 50 (MB/s)**

Speed Rating : 533X


http://www.compusa.com …?EdpNo=5546846&​CatId=4606

price is decent for the advertised performance.

no one?

Adata makes a number of products and it may be that Transcend is also connected with Adata but done quote me on that .
I've never tried those cards but you'll see some posts were someone has tested the speed of the Adata and other makes and you get conflicting results and reviews .

I have an Adata 500GB external hard drive for storage BTW and the drive is made by Fujitsu who makes some good laptop computers .

I have an A-Data 533X 16GB CF card that I got from MicroCenter for $39.99... I have no complaints, and it is fast when compared to a Kingston 30X 4GB card I have also...

I also got the AData 533x 16GB CF card from Micro Center (same price as above) and for the last 3 weeks that I've had it, it's been great. I haven't done any speed testing with it, but while shooting raw, it doesn't seem to slow down the 7D's 8fps rate any. Another review that I read said that the AData 533x is about as fast as a SanDisk 400x. I'm happy with the price/performance, and haven't had any issues yet. We'll see how it does on vacation in a few weeks!

The problem is that ona 7D even the slowest card will be able to do the 8fps. You have a 15 frame buffer. The question is how many shots can you get off before the shooting slows down. By the time you hit 15 frames (almost 2 seconds), you could write like anywhere from 0 - 3 photos. Fast cards will write 3. But how is that an indication of much? 15 vs 18 photos before the buffer fills.

A better test would be how long it takes to write that entire buffer off. Or if you held the shutter down for 5 seconds, you could probably get 26-28 photos shot on a fast card. How long after that would you have to wait before the buffer is cleared?

Shrug. It all depends. If this thing performs at 533x or at least 400x speeds, it'll be pretty fast. No doubt 600x cards are faster, but there's a point where to most people, they will all be fast. So you really need synthetic benchmarks or real timed numbers where people tell you "I shot off 25 pics vs 28 in a 5 second shutter hold." That might be all that separates a 600x vs 400x card, but the average user won't be able to differentiate unless you benchmark it.

I used A-Data 233x 32Gb card with 7D/5D2 - no issues. It never lagged or buffered during HD recording.
Not sure why anyone would want to spend that muchon a 533x card. I think 233x is just fine.

aboss3 wrote in post #10690289
I used A-Data 233x 32Gb card with 7D/5D2 - no issues. It never lagged or buffered during HD recording.
Not sure why anyone would want to spend that muchon a 533x card. I think 233x is just fine.

HD video is not at all demanding on card speed. Normal transfer speeds are around 5-6 MB/s and Canon, in the 7D manual, recommend at least 8 MB/s.

Why do people want to spend extra on a faster card? Well, they may shoot a lot in burst mode, they may have a fast card reader they want to take advantage of, or (and I believe this may be the main reason) they just want it because it's faster.

hollis_f wrote in post #10693051
HD video is not at all demanding on card speed. Normal transfer speeds are around 5-6 MB/s and Canon, in the 7D manual, recommend at least 8 MB/s.

Why do people want to spend extra on a faster card? Well, they may shoot a lot in burst mode, they may have a fast card reader they want to take advantage of, or (and I believe this may be the main reason) they just want it because it's faster.

Let me rephrase myself: I've shot a 70-80shot burst in full 8fps, the card didn't slow me down. I'm still talking about the good 'ol x233 A-Data. I've shot ballroom dance competitions with 20 shots bursts before I learned how expect a perfect shot with single shot mode. I've shot raw/jpg/raw+jpeg. Seriously guys. There's currently no need for a super fast x533. I mean: your camera/PC is not that fast anyway. There is no such body on the market that will support a x533 card!

But at the same time I understand those who had already spent the money and want to justify their purchase.

aboss3 wrote in post #10708041
Let me rephrase myself: I've shot a 70-80shot burst in full 8fps, the card didn't slow me down. I'm still talking about the good 'ol x233 A-Data. I've shot ballroom dance competitions with 20 shots bursts before I learned how expect a perfect shot with single shot mode. I've shot raw/jpg/raw+jpeg. Seriously guys. There's currently no need for a super fast x533. I mean: your camera/PC is not that fast anyway. There is no such body on the market that will support a x533 card!

But at the same time I understand those who had already spent the money and want to justify their purchase.

80mb/s is fast?

I understand the desktop, but how do you increase the camera's transfer rate to accommodate that?

Or how do you make 7D shoot more than 8fps, and 5D2 more than 3.9???????
Any solution to that?

If we speak computer terms, if the site's upstream is 1.5mbps, and your DSL speed is 10mbps, you're not downloading faster than a site can serve you. Even if you have T3 connection, you're still stuck with 1.5mbps.

aboss3 wrote in post #10708041
Let me rephrase myself: I've shot a 70-80shot burst in full 8fps, the card didn't slow me down. I'm still talking about the good 'ol x233 A-Data. I've shot ballroom dance competitions with 20 shots bursts before I learned how expect a perfect shot with single shot mode. I've shot raw/jpg/raw+jpeg. Seriously guys. There's currently no need for a super fast x533. I mean: your camera/PC is not that fast anyway. There is no such body on the market that will support a x533 card!

But at the same time I understand those who had already spent the money and want to justify their purchase.

If you're shooting 80-shot bursts at 8 fps, are you shooting RAW (which has a buffer capacity of 15 frames on the 7D) or JPEG only (where Canon rates the 7D buffer at at 94 frames, or 126 frames if the card's UDMA). If the latter, your numbers are meaningless since you haven't filled the camera's buffer - virtually any card will let you get 80 frames of JPEG in a burst. For those of us who shoot RAW, card speed is somewhat more critical, because faster cards let us get back to shooting sooner after we've filled the buffer.

Jon wrote in post #10708286
If you're shooting 80-shot bursts at 8 fps, are you shooting RAW (which has a buffer capacity of 15 frames on the 7D) or JPEG only (where Canon rates the 7D buffer at at 94 frames, or 126 frames if the card's UDMA). If the latter, your numbers are meaningless since you haven't filled the camera's buffer - virtually any card will let you get 80 frames of JPEG in a burst. For those of us who shoot RAW, card speed is somewhat more critical, because faster cards let us get back to shooting sooner after we've filled the buffer.

^^^^
Now this explains it, so I must agree.

and it allows me to transfer pictures from the card to hdd faster.