High Speed CF - Low Prices - Too Good to be true??

Greg Summers · Jan 6, 2002

http://www.mydiscountdigital.com is offering 20X CF cards 256 for $119 and 512 for $264 - shipping is free on orders over $200 - almost sounds too good to be true - I heard about it here. Does any one have any experience with this site - I talked to the owner on the phone - he seemms rather nice - says it's a brans called ri-tech or something - but I've never heard of it.

Does anyone know the website of the manufacturer. It is apparently faster than Lexar 16X and hal the price.

--Greg Summers
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Thomas Bauer · Jan 6, 2002

Hello Greg
yes

this seems to good to be true, a product at this caliber and price will put everyone else out of buisnes. But it is well worth the time to look into ferther. I've never heard of it tho.
p.s. some realt nice images on your web pages.
Thomas

KevinBE · Jan 6, 2002

Greg Look into the hardware reviews that Phil has done here at DPReview on CF cards. The ridata card is a good card and it is a little faster than most but the 20x is overrated. I don't own one but you can find many here who do. Do a search on this forum and read the posts for yourself.--Kevin

Rich Gibson · Jan 6, 2002

Yes, it's been discussed several times on the storage and media forum. As I recall the memory is really that fast. The company is Ritek. I believe the site actually compares the speeds of various CF cards.
Rich

Greg Summers · Jan 6, 2002

Thanks Thomas - I have heard in the tech mags the CF prices will fall to .50/met this year - and thanks - regarding my images - got some ducks with the 5000 today - turned out ok.

Images from the CP5000 are here

http://www.imagestation.com/album/?id=4292160803

--Greg Summers http://[email protected]

Jim Ford · Jan 7, 2002

Hi

I've got a 512meg Ritek card in my 995. It appears to work fine, but I haven't really given it a pasting yet.

Regards: Jim Ford

John Ross · Jan 7, 2002

Just ordered a 128 for $70 tax and shipping. Heard good things on this site
Try putting in a search for" Ridata" Check it out.

TDK · Jan 7, 2002

Mgf'd by Taiwan based company called Ritek Corporation http://www.ritek.com . They are selling the CF cards (branded as RiData) here is Australia as well at about the same $ (after conversion).

Kha

RonA · Jan 7, 2002

I have a 128 in my 995, works fine. Also purchased card reader which I can't recommend.
--RonA

JC45 · Jan 7, 2002

I just recieved an advertisement from MicroCenter here in Va. selling the 128mb Lexar CF for $50. Does anyone know if it's a good deal and whether it's a fast card?
Thanks, John

Andrew Curatola · Jan 7, 2002

Look into that one further, It may be a 4x or 8x card
Andrew

grablife · Jan 7, 2002

These cards have been available from them for a long time. It's gotten excellent reviews from other forum posters. It's the same as the Ridata cards reviewed on this site.

A better deal is the Kingston 256mb card from Dell for $80 after rebate. Don't pay too much attention to the 16x or 20x difference. It's a measurement of the transfer rate. Your camera is the actual bottleneck so you won't see the difference.

http://www.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1007&message=1984229

spanky71089 · Jan 7, 2002

I bought 4 128mb Ritek cards from Matt @ mydigitaldiscounts & a 128mb RiData card from Vasa @ powerinnumbers. I fine the cards great in my cp995. Actually, they are the same in speed. I ordered first from Vasa, but it took longer to get here to Bermuda(no fault of Vasa. It was during holiday time & he used Aussi post which went to the UK first. Now we have the option of using FedX) He responded to my email promptly, service was great! Matt, of course being in the US, had my order shipped via FedX. It got here within......24hrs!!!!! No pun towards Vasa, I need my CF's fast!! I also got a combo card reader(CF 1&2,SM & MicroDrive reader)from Matt. No problems at all!!

As said by Kha above, RiTek is the parent company. You cant go wrong with either.

Spanky

Hjessen · Jan 7, 2002

Ridata is on the comparo list by Phil. The cards and prices are valid and great per my experience. I ordered in December and immediately received a 512, 256, and 128. They work very well.

Hjessen

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