Kingston HI Speed Elite PRO Compact Flash 4096 MB > Reviews > Reliable Memory product

Author's product rating:   

Reliability	Excellent
Ease of use	Very easy
Value For Money	Excellent

Advantages:	Fast write speed, Reliable (estimated to last over 100 years)
Disadvantages:	none

Recommend to potential buyers:

yes

Full review

Kingston is one of the largest memory card manufacturers in the world. They are renowned for their high quality memory products. The provided picture by Ciao shows a 2GB version of the card rather than a 4GB one, which it should be. Compact flash cards (including this one) are fairly large, with an approximate length of 4.2 cm, an approximate height of 3.5 cm and an approximate depth of 0.3 cm (3 mm). Taking everything into account you can see that compact flash cards are quite large, but still very small regarding the amount of memory they can hold.

All Kingston flash compact cards (including this one) work in temperatures up to just over 85 degrees centigrade and minus temperatures up to -40 degrees centigrade. This can be seen both as an advantage as well as a disadvantage as it would mean that the memory card will function in virtually any part of the world (including the very hot Sahara desert in Africa and the North and South poles. The disadvantage would be in the device and not in the memory card, as most devices like cameras and mobile phones stop functioning at temperatures above 40 degrees centigrade and under 0 degrees centigrade.

Compact Flash cards like the Kingston 4 GB can be used in technology such as portable and desktop computers, digital cameras, handheld data collection scanners, PDAs, Pocket PCs, handy terminals, personal communicators, advanced two-way pagers, audio recorders, monitoring devices and set-top boxes. This ultimately means that compact flash cards are virtually universal, meaning that they would function in almost all devices.

The Kingston 4 GB compact flash card is very effective against shocks and drops, so you will not have to worry if you drop it. This very card has an operating shock rating of 2000 G's (2000 x the earths gravitational force), the 2000 G operating shock rating is equivalent to a 10 foot drop. With this amazing feature it is possible to use the Kingston compact flash card for more than a 100 years without no loss or decline of data.

You will only require 3.3 v (volts) up to 5 v on a single charge to run the memory card. This basically means that you need very little battery life to allow the memory card to function properly. This means that using the card with small devices such as PDA's (Personal Desktop Accessories) will have very little or no effect on the battery life.

This memory card is designed to hold mainly multimedia files such as music and video, but is quite capable of holding other types of data such as Word documents. Kingston memory cards will function on all Operating systems, including the more popular Microsoft and Apple systems. If you have a different operating system to Microsoft or Apple, then there is no need to worry as it will function on virtually all OS (Operating systems) released shortly before and after the release of Compact Flash Cards.

The X-speed on this Compact flash card as well as on all Kingston flash cards determines the writing speed of the card. The writing speed is simply the time taken for a file or files to be copied onto the memory card. The write speed determines the overall performance of the compact flash card. So the higher the write or X-speed the better the performance of the memory card. The X-speed for the Kingston HI Speed Elite PRO Compact Flash 4096 MB card is 133x. One x-speed is equivalent to 150 kb's of data transfer in a second. So to get the write speed of this particular card you have to multiply 133 by 150 KB's. So you end up with 19.95 MB's (Mega Bytes) of data transfer every second.

So if you would like to copy a 1 GB sized file onto this very card, it would take you approximately 50 seconds, which is reasonably quick. This particular card can be purchased for as cheap as just over £17. Which is reasonable, as many websites charge in excess of £20. The memory card comes in standard a see-through case, which acts as protection when not in use.

Overall, the Kingston HI Speed Elite PRO Compact Flash 4096 MB is a great innovative memory storage product, which is very reliable and will prove to be very reliable for as long as you live. Kingston is one of the best companies for memory products and also one of the most popular.

Thanks for reading my review on the Kingston HI Speed Elite PRO Compact Flash 4096 MB.