Re: Has anyone used Kingmax SD cards with their PDAs (esp. iPAQ)
From: William Cheng _at_work (_at_work)
Date: 09/15/04
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Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 11:31:57 -0400
Wow thank you so much Tedd,
Very informative. I own a iPAQ 1940 - how do I find out what its SD speed
is - its not in the manual or site specifications (at least that I saw).
Thanks,
Wm
"Tedd Riggs" <T_Riggs@msn.cöm> wrote in message
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> If that really is a 60X card, then yes,its in the range of a Lexar Pro or
> Sandisk Ultra II card. The Ultra-II gives it a 9 megabytes (MB) per second
> and a read speed of 10MB per second range (60X-66X) same as the SanDisk
> Extreme SD cards. I use the
> SanDisk 1024MB Ultra II CompactFlash in my Nikon D-70 6.1 MP Camera as it
> needs the high speed cards for it's 3 frame per second speed. Especially
if
> using the 3,008 x 2,000-pixel images. And uses "Write Acceleration" (WA).
> The Lexar cards you have to know exactly what card it is, most of the
"Pro"
> that also say "enabled for Pro" are 40X. The regular "Pro" is 80X. If you
> look at the cards they are the same except for a red circle that is either
> "40X" or "80X".
>
>
> In my Ipaq 4355 I use the basic SanDisk 1024MB SD Card and not the
Ultra
> II series as it was hard to tell a difference in the regular or high speed
> cards. Main difference was if you use a dedicated card reader. But some
> people have said there is a large difference in some database
applications,
> they saw a big difference. For me opening or writing a 3 MB JPG or 5 MB
> Pocket Streets map, the high speed seemed a tiny bit faster, but for me,
not
> worth the extra cost.
>
> Kingston has two series of SD cards, the Secure Digital (SD) and the Elite
> Pro Hi-Speed Secure Digital Card.
> I have not found very much that has the same info on the cards, but it
> sounds like the basic card is about 4X and the Hi-Speed about 60X
>
> Kingmax Digital Taipei, Taiwan is not related to Kingston at all and it
> seems the high speed SD is 66X (called Platinum series), I have never used
> one, But they do get good reviews are prices are very good.
>
> For comparison, the slow cards are roughly USB 1.1 speeds and the Pro are
> close to USB 2.0. But if your PDA cannot handle the full speed of the Pro
> type cards, there is no real reason for one in a PDA. On the other hand if
> its a hi-speed camera there is a huge difference.
>
> Hope this helps a little bit.!
> Tedd
>
>
> Tedd Riggs
> PDA Square Content Developer
> www.pdasquare.com
> Redmond, WA
>
>
>
> "William Cheng @work" <wm_cheng_NOSPAM_@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
> news:urC1d.3632$lb5.476885@news20.bellglobal.com...
> > Is Kingmax the same as Kingston?
> >
> > The Kingmax 1Gb I was look at is rated at 60x - what does that mean in
> > terms
> > of real world throughput? Is it like the Lexar Pro or Sandisk Ultras?
> >
> >
> > "Conor" <conor.turton@gmail.com> wrote in message
> > news:MPG.1bb0303cfe67891b989755@news.giganews.com...
> >> In article <Zto1d.3147$lb5.315769@news20.bellglobal.com>, William Cheng
> >> @work says...
> >> > Hi all,
> >> >
> >> > Has anyone had any experiences with Kingmax SD cards? Are they
> > reliable -
> >> > they are substaintially cheaper than Lexar or Sandisk for the same
> > amount of
> >> > memory - and the only difference I can see are that they seem to be
one
> >> > piece construction with no write protect tab. Are there any
> >> > incompatibilities or long term data loss associated with no-name SD
> > cards?
> >> >
> >> > Is it a good deal? or do you get what you paid for?
> >> >
> >> I'm using a 512MB Kingston in mine. Write speed is a little slow but
> >> the read speed is fine. Data loss hasn't been an issue.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Conor
> >>
> >> Opinions personal, facts suspect.
> >
> >
>
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