Recommend a CF card

[unhappy_mage]

I'm looking to put a CF drive in my new laptop, and would like recommendations on which one to get. I don't care much for capacity - I plan to get a large secondary card for my home directory and so forth - but speed is my primary objective. 1 or 2 GB would be plenty, but if a 4GB card is faster I wouldn't be opposed to spending the extra money.

Anyone have a suggestion?

 

[MrGuvernment]

Sandisk extreme III series, they run with a "min" of 20MB/s speeds,.

 

[drizzt81]

Sandisk extreme III series, they run with a "min" of 20MB/s speeds,.

The extreme IV (4) series is even faster, but quite pricey and possibly hard to find.

 

[MrGuvernment]

didnt even know they were upto4 yet!

 

[unhappy_mage]

Thanks for the suggestions. Unfortunately, PayPal has seen fit to set my sending limit to zero dollars, so this project is on hold until I can get that straightened out.

"Within 2-3 days", my foot.

 

[ambientZ]

and the sandisk extreme ducati edition is faster than 4 (IV)

Somebody (best buy/ circuit city) has had extreme 3 on sale recently for a couple weeks, i dont remember which though.

I've had good luck with the ultra2 sandisk in my cameras.

 

[unhappy_mage]

Wow. $170 for 4 gigs? That's pretty expensive. The Extreme 3 series is more in my price range - $45 for 2 gigs at Newegg. Interesting that such a beast exists, though.

I think the Extreme cards are essentially raid-0 devices inside to get that kind of speed, but that shouldn't hurt read latency any, which is the most important factor for my application.

 

[drizzt81]

and the sandisk extreme ducati edition is faster than 4 (IV)

Somebody (best buy/ circuit city) has had extreme 3 on sale recently for a couple weeks, i dont remember which though.

I've had good luck with the ultra2 sandisk in my cameras.

thanks for clarifying that...
It appears that they* are bringing new card to the table every week.

*they = Flash card manufacturers.