CF cards - Heads up
Posted: Sat May 01, 2010 10:39 am
Many manufaturers do change their high-speed CF cards traditionally build with endurable SLC chips to multichannel connected MLC chips. While this also gives high speeds it is not delivering the 10 times less wear-out effect of flash cells that SLC technology provides. I recommend using SLC based cards because of the better wear-out characteristic, not because of speed.
Cards affected (to my knowledge):
1) Transcend 266x/300x series is no longer advertised as SLC and they tell something about multi channel. although price is still in SLC region (>30 Euro for 4GB ) I am no longer confident that this is a suitable card. Industrial line TS4GCF100I still is guaranteed SLC. So I would prefer this (is only 5 Euro more expensive).
...please add your findings
Cards affected (to my knowledge):
1) Transcend 266x/300x series is no longer advertised as SLC and they tell something about multi channel. although price is still in SLC region (>30 Euro for 4GB ) I am no longer confident that this is a suitable card. Industrial line TS4GCF100I still is guaranteed SLC. So I would prefer this (is only 5 Euro more expensive).
...please add your findings