Re: Which SD card?

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From: Michael Tam (vitualis_NOSPAM__at_michaeltam.com)
Date: 02/22/04 

Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 21:18:27 +1100

Good luck,

> I had thought you were one of the people that had either good or bad luck
> with the Sandisk, but could not remember which one !

Bad luck... Contacted Sandisk. They refused to honour their warranty
because I didn't buy from an "authorised" dealer/reseller even though I
bought it in the sealed packaging... :-(

I've resold it however, for a good price, even though I stated that it
had problems with my PDA. The card itself was FAST and seemed to work
fine on my PC and older digital camera.

> Where did you get the Panasonic cards ? They are good cards (one came
> with my Nikon Coolpix camera), but I have not seen them for sale.

You can find them on eBay. I've not seen them anywhere else in
Australia. You have to be careful though. The older Panasonic cards
are only rated at 2MB/s (i.e., original SD standard) are still sold and
there is not much of a price differential. The newer "ultra high speed"
Panasonic cards are very nice though (66x speed or around 10MB/s
sustained read and write).

> OK on a application like yours with a 10 MB file, I can see where you would
> see a large difference between the slow cards and the fast cards. I am just
> saying that the cards are made for the "OWA" spec that some camera's have
> and a user should not expect the lexar 40X to be 40 times faster in the PDA.

No I agree. For "most" apps where they don't have to read or write much
from memory, there won't be much difference.

> Do you have a version or something similar to a PDR on your PDA ? I have
> not seen to many medical app's for the PPC, they seem to be more for
> the...Palms.

In Australia, our drug formulary is called "MIMS"... which is now also
available in electronic format for PDA (Palm and PocketPC).

Best regards,
Michael Tam 

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