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Not much bigger than a matchbook, CompactFlash is the dominant type of memory card used by today’s pro digital SLR and many high-performance amateur digicams. As technology has evolved, higher camera megapixel ratings have made the need for high-speed, high-capacity CompactFlash cards more important than ever. Today, pro CompactFlash cards can hold up to 1GB of photos.
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Viking CF256M 256 MB Compact Flash Card
Major Features/Technical data:
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Optimized for use in PDAs, MP3 players, or digital cameras. |
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Write speed guaranteed to exceed 1.2 MB per second (8X) with independent test results exceeding 2.25 MB per second (15X). |
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High quality components guarantee steady performance, the utmost durability, and breadth of compatibility. |
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Individually tested to ensure each product works the first time, everytime. |
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Five year replacement
warranty and 30-day money-back guarantee. |
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Compatibility:
check with Viking
Configurator.
(Note: Check the maximum memory capacity of your portable device before ordering.) |
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Technical
support: 1-800-845-8777, toll free, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. |
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Customer Reviews
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An electronics fan,
from Sunnyvale, CA, US, May 11, 2001
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I have been researching and researching to determine if the SanDisk,
Lexar, and Viking cards all had the same quality standards, read and write speeds, compatibility, etc.
I could not understand why the Viking cards tended to be less expensive (sometimes by quite a large delta), so assumed that there had to be some difference in quality.
SanDisk answered my question yesterday when they filed a lawsuit against Viking Components for purchasing the Lexar internal components for their CompactFlash cards
(SanDisk had earlier sued Lexar, too) stating that they are infringing upon SanDisk's patents on the components.
Other than a lot of legal jargon, this tells me that the three cards:
SanDisk, Lexar, and Viking are so similar in design, quality, speed, compatibility, etc. that they are able to get into lawsuits about it.
It also tells me one more thing--Lexar and Viking must be SanDisk's biggest competitors because they are the companies they are attacking first.
Kudos to Viking for building a product so similar in design, quality, performance, compatibility, etc. to their competitors but still willing to sell the product at a lower price to the consumer.
P.S. Viking is a very reputable company, I am sure that this matter doesn't deal with them directly. I would assume that it will go back to a battle between SanDisk and
Lexar, after all the only thing Viking did was purchase a quality component from Lexar in order to build their flash cards to the highest quality
standard.
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