[OM] Re: Xd cards

[chucknorcutt]

A CF card is a true and complete EIDE "hard drive".  The system cannot tell the 
difference.  The controller is inside the drive just as it's inside the drive 
that booted the computer you sent this mail from.  Xd card was an attempt to be 
proprietary and do it on the cheap but did so by putting the controller in the 
camera.  Fuji and Oly must have been totally bonkers to believe that they could 
somehow compete with PC hard drive technology and development schedules.  
That's why CF cards are always the firstest with the mostest on speed and 
capacity since the techology parallels that of hard drives and can be rolled 
out on the card and not on the camera.

Chuck Norcutt


>  -------Original Message-------
>  From: Ali Shah <alizookoman@xxxxxxxxx>
>  Subject: [OM] Re: Xd cards
>  Sent: Jun 17 '07 02:33
>  
>  
>  CF uses EIDE? WOW!
>  
>  --- chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>  
>  > A fundamental difference between Xd cards and CF
>  > cards is that the controller for an Xd card is in
>  > the camera whereas a CF card is a true EIDE hard
>  > drive with integral controller.  This means that the
>  > Xd card technology supported by your camera is as
>  > old as the camera.  The CF card technology supported
>  > by your CF card is as new as the CF card.  In my
>  > opinion Oly and Fuji totally blew it on Xd design.
>  > Stay with CF cards.
>  >
>  > Chuck Norcutt
>  >
>  >
>  > >  -------Original Message-------
>  > >  From: Richard Ociepka <ociepka@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>  > >  Subject: [OM] Re: Xd cards
>  > >  Sent: Jun 16 '07 21:41
>  > >  
>  > >  jgettis81@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>  > >  > Thanks that was the answer I was looking for
>  > which was fastest John
>  > >  
>  > >  Originally the xD-Picture cards were supposed to
>  > be 0.6 MB/sec.
>  > >  
>  > >  The 1GB type-H xD-card writes at 2.0 MB/sec in
>  > the E-500.
>  > >  This still makes it a very slow card compared to
>  > a CF card.
>  > >  
>  > >  Dick
>  > >  
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