Cheap, really cheap Seagate 8GB CF-II cards

peterattheboro · 13 Oct 2008 at 21:45

Will bang this in here as it's for photography purposes.

Looking on that auction site, there are some really cheap compact flash cards.

Am after an 8GB but for the price of these (£10 + £5 delivery) I can get 2.

Are these really crap then compared to the Sandisk Extreme III card i'm using now?

It's only for my 350D and I realise that the Extreme card is a bit overkill.

This is the spec:

This Seagate ST1.2 8 GB CompactFlash Hard Drive is great for storing MP3 files, photos, data files and more! It features 3600 RPM speeds and 2 MB buffer.

General Features:
# 8 GB capacity

# Type II CF+ interface

# 3600 RPM speed

# 2 MB buffer

# 33.3 MB/s data transfer rate

# 8.3 ms average latency

# Model: ST68022CF

# P/N: 9AN417-501

# Condition: Used (90 day satisfaction guaranteed)

Just noticed that at the bottom

Refurb?

olv · 13 Oct 2008 at 22:26

Don't buy compact flash cards from ebay. They are cheap because they are fakes and will not perform up to par.

There are plenty of online retailers offering cheap CF cards.

JBuk · 13 Oct 2008 at 22:28

olv said:
Don't buy compact flash cards from ebay. They are cheap because they are fakes and will not perform up to par.

There are plenty of online retailers offering cheap CF cards.

+1

I bought a Sandisk 4gb extreme III off the bay and it was a fake, I could tell right away as it looked crap

got a refund though

sid · 13 Oct 2008 at 22:29

Thats a harddrive not a card,

Will that even work?

sid

peterattheboro · 13 Oct 2008 at 22:29

Good to know. Thanks.

Just ordered 2x 4GB Sandisk cards for a tenner each from elsewhere

robertgilbert86 · 13 Oct 2008 at 22:30

If you use a card reader to transfer cards you should definitely stick to XIIIs.

The cheap cards transfer painfully slowly.

GeX · 13 Oct 2008 at 22:36

sid said:
Thats a harddrive not a card,

Will that even work?

sid

the CF and IDE interface is pretty much the same thing

rpstewart · 13 Oct 2008 at 22:40

sid said:
Thats a harddrive not a card,

Will that even work?

sid

Yes, it's the same deal as the old IBM Microdrives. They were great when solid state CF cards cost an arm and a leg but even at £10 a pop they're a waste of money these days. They're nowhere near as robust as CF, they're slow and they suck battery life like there's no tomorrow.

V-Spec · 13 Oct 2008 at 22:44

Unless I am mistaken, it looks like an older style microdrive to me, the pros were using them in sports cameras before the advent of fast flash cards like the Extreme III's. My friend has a load of old 2 and 4GB Seagate ones, and they are extremley unreliable.. Drop them, get them wet and they're screwed.

In mine/my friends experience, when they go wrong they also make your camera throw up all sorts of random errors and cause it to lockup, you also lose everything on there.

Unless i'm going off on a tangent and the device in question isn't a microdrive, i'd seriously stay clear and stick with normal microchip style devices..

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