Kingston Class 6 vs Sandisk Class 6 SDHC 8GB

Looking at buying a new SDHC card & the "class" ratings still doesn't seem to make comparison clear cut.

The Kingston Class 6 8gb SDHC is noticeably cheaper then the Sandisk equivalent, the question is though are card speeds the same ?

thanks

simon

This might help?

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/memory-hog-battlemodo/among-many-fast-sdhc-cards--onl...

or this

http://www.hjreggel.net/cardspeed/speed-by-cards-sdh.html

Thanks for the links, very helpful - the Kingston cards don't seem to perform at the same speeds as Sandisk

Looking through the test results what does suprise me is the Dane-elec performance, it's a cheap card which seems to offer very good performance, not really heard of them though, has anyone else ?

simon

Hi Simon, Dane Elec have been around for years and are often rated highly. Don't forget that transfer speeds are also effected by the card reader.

I reckon this Card+Reader deal is good at the moment:

http://www.picstop.co.uk/Secure-Digital-SDHC/SanDisk-Extreme-III-Secure-Digital-...%28SDHC%29-CLASS-6-%2B-MicroMate---4GB

Vic.

Thanks for the link Vic,

Looks a good deal - regarding transfer speed I'm only really looking at "in-camera".

Simon

www.picstop.co.uk list the read and write speeds of all the cards they sell
I recently bought a Sandisk Extreme III 4Gb SDHC - it came with a little USB card reader which was good as I found out that all my SD card readers won't do SDHC.
But the card reader really, really flies
Matt

If you're only interested in transferring photos via the camera USB connection, I don't think a fast SD card will make much difference as the card speed is not the bottleneck in this situation.

With a fast external card reader, a fast SD card can really shine.

Dan Bridges.

I suspect what he means is that he doesn't care how long it takes the camera to download to his PC when he gets home, it's the buffer-to-card time while shooting which matters.

I tend to agree.

I have a Dane-Elec 80x 1GB card for my *istDL2 and it's been very quick and reliable over the years. I haven't used anyones SDHC cards, but Dane-Elec are a brand I would be willing to use again.

Exactly, I've got plenty of time on my hands at home - it's in the field where I want the speed.

Think I'll be going with the Sandisk Extreme III

thanks

simon