...The massive success of digital cameras has driven demand for bigger and better portable storage formats and CompactFlash is just one of a number of portable, removable digital storage media available. While it is undoubtedly compact, it is certainly not the smallest format available, XD, SD and SmartMedia are all physically smaller devices. It's at this point that it's worth mentioning that there are two types of CompactFlash named, imaginatively, Type I and Type II. The only real difference is in their thickness, with Type I cards measuring 3.3mm thick and type II cards measuring 4mm. What this means is that a Type I card will work in a Type II compatible deice, but not the other way round, simply because a Type II card will not physically fit in a Type I slot.
The big benefit of CompactFlash is not the physical size, it...
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Ciao members have rated this review on average very helpful
Advantages: You Will Never Lose It & It IsCheap Disadvantages: Extremely Big & Extremely Slow
...I have an Archos AV420, and I needed some extra memory. It has an external CompactFlash (CF) slot, so I bought a 1GB CF card for £14.99 from a website that I found on google.
This may be cheap, but I would not have bought this format if I could have bought anything else. I have found some problems with the card.
Firstly, the card is extremely big. This meant that I had to buy an extra external card reader, because my normal one couldn't accommodate the size. Luckily it came with a carry case because the card caboodle that I have was not big enough. So I now have to carry it around it another card holder which is a bit of a pain. It is roughly double the size of an MMC card, and nearly twice the thickness.
Secondly, it is painfully slow when transferring any sort of data from you PC to the card. I have Lost on my PC, and I...
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Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful
Having bought this card to give me higher capacity and faster write speed (My previous card was a Fujifilm 1gb CF card which I bought from ASDA for £8), I can safely say this card is superb value for money!
It's improved the write speed of my slow 300D more