Roundup: CompactFlash Cards For Professionals

Conclusion: Kingston Wins

However, the other products aren’t far behind, and many of them are suitable as alternatives should you get a better deal than what is possible for the Kingston Ultimate cards. The most important decision is to define the desired application.

Lexar’s Professional delivers fast and balanced read and write throughput, but other SLC flash cards deliver better I/O performance. Silicon Power and the Transcend Ultra Speed do well if you can live with average write performance, but they fail on I/O performance, if that matters to you. This is the case if you’re looking for a fast card to use as a storage device for system installations on industrial solutions or similar. In that case, Transcend’s Extreme Speed is great if you can live with average throughput.