pqi 2G CF cards...anyone tried them ?

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W.W. Webster

gus wrote:

Just thought i'd ask in the event of someone having a bad experience with them.[/URL]

I've never heard of them but it all depends on what you want to use them for, i.e. the reliability and performance you require. Although the web site paints the company in glowing terms, I notice Rob Galbraith hasn't heard of them either, but that goes for many fringe Taiwanese 'manufacturers'.

My observation would be that although at a "max. data transfer rate: 2.7MB/sec" nothing's going to happen very quickly, they may be quite adequate to have on hand as spares in an emergency.

rjpat

I don't see what the benefit would be, it isn't really that cheap. I bought a Sandisk 2gb Extreme II for $80 at Circuit City last week.

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W.W. Webster

On further research, I see Rob Galbraith does recognise PQI's existence in quoting a statutory filing by Lexar which refers to the competitive memory enviroment, saying, in part:

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We also face significant competition from manufacturers or card assemblers and resellers that either resell flash cards purchased from others or assemble cards from controllers and flash memory chips purchased from companies such as Renesas, Samsung or Toshiba, into flash cards.

These companies include Crucial, Dane-Elec, Delkin Devices, Feiya, Fuji, Hagiwara, Hama, Hewlett Packard, Data I/O, Infineon, Kingston, Kodak, M-Systems, Matsushita, Memorex, Memory Plus, Micron, PNY, PQI, Pretec, Ritek, Samsung, SanDisk, Silicon Storage Technology, SimpleTech, SMART Modular Technologies, Sony, TDK, Transcend, Viking InterWorks and many others.

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SpeshulEd

I know of some folks that have had success using them in digital audio recorders, but I haven't heard of anything camera wise.