Samsung CF Cards - any good?
Discussion
Imperialism2024 said:
No experience with them, but to me 4GB of data seems like quite a large gamble in terms of losing the pictures due to a corrupt card, card loss, etc.
Surely that's a risk you take with data on any CF card, regardless of size?
SVP have 8Gb Datawrites for £99 but I have no idea what the quality of those are like, Datawrites optical media has always been top notch for me though.
I use a few 1GB cards. My main reason for getting them at the time was price, but now I like that it wouldn't be as devastating to only lose 1GB of pictures rather than 4GB.
Edited to add: I guess it's just more of a personal preference than anything.
Edited to add: I guess it's just more of a personal preference than anything.
Edited by Imperialism2024 on Wednesday 9th August 15:58
I go with the multiple 1Gb cards idea too
Watch out for Toshiba cards, too. Although not as fast they appear to be fantastically good value at XL shop....
www.xlshop.com/searchResults.asp?tabGrpCode=COMP1&tabSelect=TAB4&searchStr=CFTOS
..and I can't imagine Toshiba pumping out rubbish?
Watch out for Toshiba cards, too. Although not as fast they appear to be fantastically good value at XL shop....
www.xlshop.com/searchResults.asp?tabGrpCode=COMP1&tabSelect=TAB4&searchStr=CFTOS
..and I can't imagine Toshiba pumping out rubbish?
Oakey said:
Have you ever suffered a CF card failure? What happens? If it's nothing more than photos being wiped then they can usually be recovered can they not?
Not me personally, but is has happened to folks I know or others on this forum. When it happens you have no access to the data on the card, except perhaps by engaging the services of data recovery experts, which do not come cheap. In most cases the data is just lost as it isn't worth the cost of extracting it.
The chances of failure are small, but there is still a chance nontheless, and if a failure occurs I'd rather lose at most one gig of data rathen than four or eight times that!
In any case having multiple cards has its uses - you can use different cards for different occasions and not have to do as much housekeeping, you can lend out your cards to friends and still have one or some you can use, if you misplace the card you haven't lost so much data and you still have others etc.
The downsides are tiny; namely having to carry around the cards, which for all intents and purposes weigh nothing and take up almost no room, and possibly losing out on the £/MB equation which the bigger cards offer (but only by a small margin).
Steve, if someone had experience and had read the thread, they would've posted, regardless of the drivel.
Big name like Samsung (though I question whether they actually manufacture the cards themselves) combined with the fact that CF cards have been around long enough that the only thing really seperating the great ones with the 90% of others isn't reliability, but speed (can't find any info on this).
I'd say go for it if the price is right.
Big name like Samsung (though I question whether they actually manufacture the cards themselves) combined with the fact that CF cards have been around long enough that the only thing really seperating the great ones with the 90% of others isn't reliability, but speed (can't find any info on this).
I'd say go for it if the price is right.
-DeaDLocK- said:
Big name like Samsung (though I question whether they actually manufacture the cards themselves) combined with the fact that CF cards have been around long enough that the only thing really seperating the great ones with the 90% of others isn't reliability, but speed (can't find any info on this).
There is some information on CF performance here
-DeaDLocK- said:
Oakey said:
Have you ever suffered a CF card failure? What happens? If it's nothing more than photos being wiped then they can usually be recovered can they not?
Not me personally, but is has happened to folks I know or others on this forum. When it happens you have no access to the data on the card, except perhaps by engaging the services of data recovery experts, which do not come cheap. In most cases the data is just lost as it isn't worth the cost of extracting it.
The chances of failure are small, but there is still a chance nontheless, and if a failure occurs I'd rather lose at most one gig of data rathen than four or eight times that!
In any case having multiple cards has its uses - you can use different cards for different occasions and not have to do as much housekeeping, you can lend out your cards to friends and still have one or some you can use, if you misplace the card you haven't lost so much data and you still have others etc.
The downsides are tiny; namely having to carry around the cards, which for all intents and purposes weigh nothing and take up almost no room, and possibly losing out on the £/MB equation which the bigger cards offer (but only by a small margin).
There's a free app available that will recover lost data from a CF card. I ran it on one of mine last week and it was quite good, recovered some images that were deleted a month or so back.
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