Memory Cards, Part 1: CompactFlash From 8GB To 64GB

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Professionals rely on high-speed CompactFlash cards. Today we're looking at a handful of different options from Lexar, Samsung, SanDisk, Silicon Power, and Transcend with capacities up to 64GB and speeds up to 600x (as high as 90 MB/s)

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System Hardware
Hardware Details
CPU Intel Core i7-920 (45 nm, 2.66 GHz, 8MB L2 Cache)
Motherboard (Sockel 1366) Supermicro X8SAX Revision: 1.1; Chipset: Intel X58 + ICH10R; BIOS: 1.0B
RAM 3 x 1GB DDR3-1333 Corsair CM3X1024-1333C9DHX
HDD Seagate NL35 400GB; ST3400832NS 7,200 RPM, SATA 1.5Gb/s, 8MB Cache
Compact Flash Addonics ADSACFW SATA
Secure Digital HC SanDisk ImageMate
Power Supply OCZ EliteXstream 800W OCZ800EXS-EU
Benchmarks
Performance Measurements h2benchw 3.12PCMark Vantage 1.0
I/O Performance IOMeter 2006.07.27Fileserver-BenchmarkWebserver-BenchmarkWorkstation-Benchmark
System Software & Drivers
Driver Details
Operating System Windows Vista Ultimate SP1
Intel Chipset Chipset Installation Utility 9.1.0.1007
AMD Graphics Radeon 8.12
Intel Matrix Storage 8.7.0.1007