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A Memory Card Torture Test

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the kicking-the-tires dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Would you buy a Ferrari and put regular gas into it? I don't think so. So why are most of us buying expensive digital cameras and using cheap memory cards? If you want to find out how much better a high speed memory card is, check out this group test of high capacity compact flash and SD cards."

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  1. Re:Always performance, never durability by gowen · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If you take 10,000 photos between taking a "once-in-a-lifetime" photo and backing it up onto a tougher media, you pretty much deserve to lose all your work. The biggest loss of digital camera images are caused by loss/theft of the camera, and user error (accidental deletion). Media failure doesn't even register on the scale.

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  2. Re:Interesting. by Angostura · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Precisely. I was vaguely interested in the article - will a more expensive card improve the shooting speed on my camera? I wondered, or more precisely - would it reduce the delay between being able to take pictures?

    Page 2 of the article: "many of our digital cameras have limited write speeds too, so the full potential of these so-called high-speed cards will be restricted.".

    So nothing to see here, move along.