Kingston 16 GB and Buy.com

Buy.com is offering a 16 gb Kingston ( ultra-fast transfer rates of 45MB/second read and 40MB/sec. write) compact flash card for $30 bucks minus a mail-in rebate of $10 bucks. Click here if you wanted one for yourself.


My biggest concern is, as with the concerns of most photographers who value their images, having a card corrupted or go bad with 10 or more gigs of photo is a major buzz killer. However, having the ability to hold 16 gigs is pretty awesome though.

My current arsenal of compact flash cards is made up primarily of two SanDisk 8 gb Extreme Ducati Edition CompactFlash Memory Card. Not a failure in three years with moderate amounts of shooting. These are also 45MB/second for reading and writing. I hope I won't miss the 5MB/second slower write speed on the Kingston. Anyhow, I paid mucho bucks for the SanDisk cards. The twice the size Kingston is probably 1/4-1/3 the price of the SanDisk (when I got them).

Happy Thursday all.