A-Data 4GB 266x Compact Flash Card Speed Test on Nikon D200

This is a memory write speed test on an A-Data 4GB 266x Compact Flash Card using a Nikon D200 Digital SLR. The speed test consists of 1, 2, 5 & 20 shots. I'm shooting uncompressed RAW (NEF) which is roughly around 15.3MB per picture. The preview mode on the camera is off to avoid any processing delay.

In case you wonder why it looks like there are two videos pasting together, I added the description clip in front of the original test video so you know how the test is constructed.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• Nikon
• D200
• A-DATA
• 4GB
• 266x
• Compact
• Flash
• Card
• Speed
• Test

[bentse]

Yes, if the speed reported is correct but I noticed that some brand inflate their rating and doesn't give enough substain write rate.

[bentse]

This meant to be a CF card speed test, not camera test. Thanks for viewing.

[bentse]

Extreme IV is good but pretty expensive.

Unless you have UDMA on your camera, the Sony 133x and the Transcend 120x,133x are pretty good.

[bentse]

Yes, Extreme III is a good card, I don't even need to show you the video. The Sony is also a good card (a little slower than the Extreme III but much cheaper when I got mine on sale), waiting to test out their new 300x card.

[bentse]

"A", "Data" => 1 at a time => slow

[bentse]

Yes, the A-Data is very slow. I'll try to avoid it - I was first attracted by the low price. The 120x transcend seems to be a good buy, should test out the 266x as well.

[MrYoda1972]

hi. nice demo. i currently have a Nikon D60, and im thinking of buying a used D200 (body) for $550. do you think this would be a good buy for a older model? or should i go for the new D90 body for around $800.

[dewatandas]

i'm very new in SLR, i just bought Canon 300D, but the CF included was a 32mb card. too small. so i'm planning to buy 4gb Kingstone, is there a lot difference between 133x and 266x cf card? tq

[darthsmidge]

just faster data transfer i think

[TMASR001]

So how is Compact Flash different from SD Cards?

[CerBEER]

d200 can write just 10Mb/s no matter how fast card is.

[lazlobass]

except action sports sequences. I've shot 24 frame sequences and still come up short

[73irdman]

that really slow for a 266x I have the same mp's as you and a kingston ult. 266x and it easily writes 10 RAW in 8 sec.

[73irdman]

around 40-45

[adminforego2]

266x is how many MBps (mega bytes per second)