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Any great buys now on SD cards?

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Thanks! I have ordered from them before.Every now and then there is a great deal and I order a few card sof one type or another.

I am kicking myself as i put down a 1 gb SD card yesterday and have yet to find it. I looked everywhere, and even poured out the trash.

New idea for these small cards...homing devices!

Linda
 
Frys have been having almost a firesales on flash ram media.

Got a 60x 2GB for 39 and usualy the 80X goes for around 49.
 
Fry's has a single store in Houston but it is about 2 hours round trip. I find it easier to buy on line from them unless I am near the airport. Weekends are a zoo there!

(Roundtrip gas is about $30!)

Linda
 
SOME people have had problems with these 'too new' 150x style cards.

I personally will not use or trust them. I recommend against them.

some people get them to work. enough have had problems that I do NOT recommend them.

caveats. do what you want. but using parts that are not designed for your device isn't smart, IMHO.

150x is nonstandard, from the camera's perspective.

(please, I dont' care about anecdotal evidence of 'it works for me'. yes, it works... until you finally find one situation where it won't. don't say you weren't warned.)

10MB/sec cards are the only ones PERFECTLY in spec. ie, 66x cards.

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bryan (pics @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/linux-works )
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Bryan, are you saying 66x is perfectly in spec for all Pannys or one particular model? I'd like to knowbecause I am about to receive FX01 and want to buy additional cards. Thanks.
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jkwex
 
see here: http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:frJaZqr0Hs4J:www.sdcard.org/sdio/Simplified%2520Physical%2520Layer%2520Specification.PDF+sd-card+spec&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=3

section2:

"Up to 10MByte/sec Read/Write rate (using 4 parallel data lines)"

it cannot get any clearer than that!!

up to 10mb/sec (and that's using 4 wires - which many controllers and cameras will NOT do - they'll do serial mode using 1 wire).

there is just no way to go faster than 10 (66x) using standard hardware that is COMPLIANT.

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bryan (pics @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/linux-works )
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but you can train your dog to sniff for them ...LOL ...animals are smarter than electronics...;-))

newegg is great for SD cards, i got the transcend 80x from them ...cheap and performs like a champ on my LX1 ie fast write !
 
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