RE: AW: CFC Speeds for Repeater

["CM" <listmail@asyouthink.com>]

Anyone know the best place to get these Pretec 512MB chips?  Is this the same item?  (I notice the "different" part number, is why I'm asking)

 

http://www.mobileplanet.com/product.asp?dept_id=1446&pf_id=MP970882&src=IMFRO

 

thx!

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From: Gunnar Backman [mailto:brakophonic@telia.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 12:14 PM
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Subject: Re: AW: CFC Speeds for Repeater

Hi

I got this of the Electrix Forum since I had problems with 
my Simpletech 256 MBCF
"Recently 
I bought Pretec 512MB I-Grade CompactFlash Disk (Hitachi SAH05) Ref: CFH512EHG 
and it works perfectly."

Gunnar 
Backman
Brak(E)man Prod/Brakophonics
E-mail 
brakophonic@telia.com
http://www.brakophonic.com


> As far as I understand it, CFCs destined to work are those with 
>   a
> Hitachi chipset (information from Electrix or from their user group, 
>   and
> they weren't more specific as to which chipset of Hitachi. Guess 
>   it's
> the one which was available when the Repeater was released). 
>   From
> sustained write/read speed, you can do the math yourself, ending up 
>   with
> something well below 1MB/s. 
>
> Rainer 
>
> -----Ursprüngliche 
>   Nachricht-----
> Von: Tom Griesgraber [mailto:tom@thossounds.com] 
>   
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 18. Januar 2005 19:12
> An: 
>   Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Betreff: CFC Speeds for 
>   Repeater
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> Like many folks I got a new digital camera 
>   for Christmas, and it of 
> course came with a pretty small CFC. In buying a 
>   new one for it I 
> learned that some manufacturers are now giving write 
>   speeds on their 
> CFC. I'm wondering if anyone has any experience with this 
>   and the 
> Repeater.
>
> Lexar is making CFC that are labeled things like 
>   4X, 8X... and I've 
> seen as high as 80X. For my camera I opted for a 512MB 
>   40X which they 
> claim is capable of a sustained write speed of 6.0MB per 
>   second (they 
> say nothing about read speeds). "X" to them means 150KB per 
>   second. I 
> tried this card in the Repeater and while it seemed ok for some 
>   small 
> mono loops, as soon as I tried stereo recording the Repeater 
>   instantly 
> reported "CFC SLOW"
>
> I also tried the 16MB Lexar 8X that 
>   came with the camera and got the 
> same results (stereo looping was too much 
>   for it).
>
> So.. The SimpleTech 128MB I bought from Electrix years ago is 
>   still the 
> biggest CFC I've found that works. Of course.. there's always 
>   the 80X 
> Lexar (?)
>
>
> Anybody have any other 
>   findings?
>
> Thanks!
> Tom