I bought three 16 GB CF cards for my new Z7: two Kingston Memory ones from B&H and one really cheap $79 Transcend card from eCost.com.
I fully expected the Kingston Memory card to outperform the cheap Transcend and I just bought it "to see if I could get away with it". Anyway, the Transcend seemed to work fine, but I am getting errors on the Kingston. One got so fouled up that I had to send it back with an RMA.
Anyway, that seemed strange so I searched around and found a memory card utility that would do a speed test here:
http://www.flashmemorytoolkit.com/
I am amazed to see that the el cheapo Transcend outperforms the far more expensive Kingston Memory chip by a pretty wide margin.
Kingston Memory:
Transcend:
Who'd have thought!? Anyway, if you have a Z7, just buy the Transcend. Don't worry that it's so cheap that it shouldn't work. It does.
I fully expected the Kingston Memory card to outperform the cheap Transcend and I just bought it "to see if I could get away with it". Anyway, the Transcend seemed to work fine, but I am getting errors on the Kingston. One got so fouled up that I had to send it back with an RMA.
Anyway, that seemed strange so I searched around and found a memory card utility that would do a speed test here:
http://www.flashmemorytoolkit.com/
I am amazed to see that the el cheapo Transcend outperforms the far more expensive Kingston Memory chip by a pretty wide margin.
Kingston Memory:
Transcend:
Who'd have thought!? Anyway, if you have a Z7, just buy the Transcend. Don't worry that it's so cheap that it shouldn't work. It does.