Fastest SD card for K100D

I ordered a K100D and I forgot to order the SD card that goes with it. I am thinking about the Transcend Secure Digital Card (150X Ultra Speed), but I am unsure whether to buy two 2GB for about $72 each or one 4GB for about $143. I would rather buy two cards of 2 GB each, in case one breaks or I lose it. Any reason why I should buy one 4GB card? Sorry if this question might sound stupid to you.

Any other SD card you would recommend (apart from SanDisk Extreme III, which is really expensive: 1GB for $139.99)?

Thanks.

Actually I use 1 gig cards for the very reason you state against the 4 gig card. 1 gig is also where the current sweet spot in pricing seems to be.

I just purchased a Corsair 1 gig 133x card from New Egg for US$27.99.

My second Corsair card. Have not had a problem with them yet, and they tend to be somewhat cheaper than more popular name brands like San Disk or Lexar.
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Rubicond said:

I ordered a K100D and I forgot to order the SD card that goes with
it. I am thinking about the Transcend Secure Digital Card (150X
Ultra Speed)

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If the performance of the K100D should be similar to that of the *ist DS, then everything faster than about 50x would be wasted.

• Michael

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Chances of loosing data are equal in both cases, the difference is that with two cards you can still shoot if one breaks and you have space on the other. OTOH if you have two cards you'll have one more thing to keep in mind when gearing up for photo shoot, not to mention swaping cards while shooting and considerably greater chances of loosing spare card.

When I was facing similar decision (2GB or 2x1GB Transcend 150x SD) I wen't for a single card. Works great and I removed it only when I tried my *ist DS as a card reader (I think it became a part of my camera)

4GB is an awful lot of pictures - aprox. 380 RAW (even more if it was optimised) and countless jpegs.

My advice would be: buy 2GB and see how it suits you. You can get a spare card later and cheaper.
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Michael J. Hußmann said:

Rubicond said:

I ordered a K100D and I forgot to order the SD card that goes with
it. I am thinking about the Transcend Secure Digital Card (150X
Ultra Speed)

Click to expand...

If the performance of the K100D should be similar to that of the
*ist DS, then everything faster than about 50x would be wasted.

• Michael

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I would highly doubt that is the case... we don't know anything about write speeds buts its dafe to assume its faster than the DS.

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Thank you! I ordered the Corsair. I hope it's not going to break.

I posted this in another thread yesterday, but it's germaine to your question as well...

A couple of weeks ago, I and another friend independently contacted Pentax Customer Service on this issue.

Pentax official response is that they currently support 2G SD cards, presuming the DL, DL2 and DS2 models or DS upgraded with Firmware v2.0. They do NOT currently support 4G SD cards due to ambiguities in the hardware specification for the 4G SD cards.

Some may work, when formatted for FAT in a host computer. Some folks have told me that formatting a 4G SD card for Windows file system FAT16 with Mac OS X using a card reader works.

Pentax went on to say that they are behind the SDHC specification that Sandisk is promoting, and when an official acceptance of that or similar specification is arrived at, and large capacity SDHC cards conforming to that specification become available, they will plan on releasing a firmware update for all cameras that can be compatible.

I would stick with 2G cards as maximum.

Regards what's fastest for the K100D: It's been proven by testing that the DS write speed improves nicely with up to an 80x card. There is no substantive data available yet on the K100D, but with the price of the Transcend 150x 2G cards so low, there's no downside to buying them and enjoying super speed downloads to your computer, and the K100D might well have an even faster bus.

Godfrey

newegg has the 4gb 150x for around $84 after rebate and adding in shipping!

i'd rather have 2 2gb cards than the one 4gb, but the price is so tempting....then again, sd cards seem to be dropping so much in price...robert

If your looking for a second 2 Gig I recently got a one (140X) for $50 + $18 shipping form NCIX.com. The have specials every so often. Shipping is way high but initial price so good it still works out. Got great service and so far the card works fine. Thanks to a forum member who previously posted about this deal.... unfortunately I'm old with a horses* t memory so I can;t propaerly attribute the info!
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