New CF cards coming soon?

[Joseph Hutson]

Hi Jim,
I just test the new SanDisk Extreme Pro 64GB card, It's 90MB/s, But it only let me format by 2K, I try to check the read and white speed on my computer, It's faster than RedCF a lot. could you tell me why? Is That means I am only stick with RedCF anyway?

Don't expect to be answered unless you have your real name. Those are Jim's rules.

[Siuki Yip]

Hi Joseph Hutson,
Siuki Yip is my real name from my passport, in chinese is 葉紹麒, hahahahaha

[Joseph Hutson]

Hi Joseph Hutson,
Siuki Yip is my real name from my passport, in chinese is 葉紹麒, hahahahaha

haha...lol. I might have come across to harsh in the last post since I didn't use any emoticons.

[Michael Hastings]

Hi Jim,
I just test the new SanDisk Extreme Pro 64GB card, It's 90MB/s, But it only let me format by 2K, I try to check the read and white speed on my computer, It's faster than RedCF a lot. could you tell me why? Is That means I am only stick with RedCF anyway?

Don't expect to be answered unless you have your real name. Those are Jim's rules.

Hi Joseph Hutson,
Siuki Yip is my real name from my passport, in chinese is 葉紹麒, hahahahaha

Yup just tested the Transcend.. still not there yet :( Tested really fast for the normal Block Size a CF card would normally see, but didn't do so well for the way the RED writes to them.

How about the extreme pro 32s? Can you give us the parameters (or a benchmark test) you use so we can test these ourselves. Some of us have a strong interest in cards larger than 16 even if we are limited only to the original REDCODE (RC28?) 4K 2:1 data rate. Also have some dual use desire i.e. REDONE and 5D/7D etc.

Would like to have some idea of what the real parameters are.

Also what are the actual specs on the RED 16GB and do these work in 5d/7d?

[TATOU]

Hi Jim,
I just test the new SanDisk Extreme Pro 64GB card, It's 90MB/s, But it only let me format by 2K, I try to check the read and white speed on my computer, It's faster than RedCF a lot. could you tell me why? Is That means I am only stick with RedCF anyway?

Good question!!!!

An answer from Jim please

[Jeff Kilgroe]

I have a SanDisk 64GB Extreme Pro right now. Actually just got it yesterday. Haven't started any real testing.

Some quick file access tests show that read speed looks to be close to the 90MB/s claimed. Write speed is noticeably slower, like half as fast. But I haven't done any serious benchmarks yet.

Compatibility is an issue. The card doesn't work in any device I've tried, other than my FW800 and eSATA card readers. ...Kinda like the RED 16GB cards.

[TATOU]

I have a SanDisk 64GB Extreme Pro right now. Actually just got it yesterday. Haven't started any real testing.

Some quick file access tests show that read speed looks to be close to the 90MB/s claimed. Write speed is noticeably slower, like half as fast. But I haven't done any serious benchmarks yet.

Compatibility is an issue. The card doesn't work in any device I've tried, other than my FW800 and eSATA card readers. ...Kinda like the RED 16GB cards.

Thank you for your reply.

Waiting for an answer from Red.

[Jarred Land]

Tested these ones already.. dropped frames. Weird controller in the cards indeed that probably still needs some work. I was hoping the Photofast would be fast enough as well but they are half the speed as the Sandisk ones.

Hoping Lexar comes out with something new soon.... or we might need to make our own again when it comes time to increase size.

[Jeff Kilgroe]

Bummer... Too bad. I had high hopes for these cards.

I haven't stuck the 64GB card into the RED yet, but it would be limited to 2K anyhow. This SanDisk card is probably getting sent back. It's not compatible with the D2x or D3x, so that kills the option of keeping it for use with the DSLRs here. The Nikons have a 32GB ceiling on their CF interface anyway.

[RivaiC]

Tested these ones already.. dropped frames. Weird controller in the cards indeed that probably still needs some work. I was hoping the Photofast would be fast enough as well but they are half the speed as the Sandisk ones.

Hoping Lexar comes out with something new soon.... or we might need to make our own again when it comes time to increase size.

Thank you for your confirmation Jarred ! You're the man..