http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/kingston-intros-266x-compactflash-ultimate-cards/ Engadget Comments for Kingston intros 266x CompactFlash Ultimate cards http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/kingston-intros-266x-compactflash-ultimate-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/kingston-intros-266x-compactflash-ultimate-cards/Jul 23rd 2007 5:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/kingston-intros-266x-compactflash-ultimate-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/kingston-intros-266x-compactflash-ultimate-cards/Jul 23rd 2007 5:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/kingston-intros-266x-compactflash-ultimate-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/kingston-intros-266x-compactflash-ultimate-cards/Jul 23rd 2007 5:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/kingston-intros-266x-compactflash-ultimate-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/kingston-intros-266x-compactflash-ultimate-cards/Jul 24th 2007 2:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/kingston-intros-266x-compactflash-ultimate-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/kingston-intros-266x-compactflash-ultimate-cards/
Lexar's 8GB 300X card can be found for $210-220 and I have seen it on sale for $120-150.]]>Jul 24th 2007 2:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/kingston-intros-266x-compactflash-ultimate-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/kingston-intros-266x-compactflash-ultimate-cards/Jul 23rd 2007 6:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/kingston-intros-266x-compactflash-ultimate-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/kingston-intros-266x-compactflash-ultimate-cards/
But it's still too expensive compare to Samsung's 32gb SSD, and it is not a SSD]]>Jul 23rd 2007 6:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/kingston-intros-266x-compactflash-ultimate-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/kingston-intros-266x-compactflash-ultimate-cards/---------------it's more likly for some one who want to use it as SSD hard drive by using CF-IDE adapter.------------

That's exactly what I've done. I've got more information about it here:

http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3424

in case anybody wanted more info about that. The one thing I'm not clear on is if this kingston card has UDMA 33/66/100/133 support the way that Lexar's 300x and Sandisk's Extreme 4 line do. I'd think that they'd have to given that PIO modes just won't get the job done, but I couldn't find comfirmation via a google search.

But regardless, the CF as an SSD solution does work well.]]>Sep 3rd 2007 10:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/kingston-intros-266x-compactflash-ultimate-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/kingston-intros-266x-compactflash-ultimate-cards/Jul 23rd 2007 8:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/kingston-intros-266x-compactflash-ultimate-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/kingston-intros-266x-compactflash-ultimate-cards/
Same goes for the UDMA Lexars which claim 300x.]]>Jul 23rd 2007 10:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/kingston-intros-266x-compactflash-ultimate-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/kingston-intros-266x-compactflash-ultimate-cards/
http://store.lexar.com/index.cfm?productid=CF8GB-300-380&bhcp=1]]>Jul 24th 2007 10:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/kingston-intros-266x-compactflash-ultimate-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/kingston-intros-266x-compactflash-ultimate-cards/Jul 24th 2007 2:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/kingston-intros-266x-compactflash-ultimate-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/kingston-intros-266x-compactflash-ultimate-cards/Jul 24th 2007 2:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/kingston-intros-266x-compactflash-ultimate-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/kingston-intros-266x-compactflash-ultimate-cards/life to live and if these companies dont want 2 make fast affordable drives for the general public absolutely right now, then they need to shut their f*ckin pie holes and get out of our faces and pc buiss. Gamers and pc enthousiasts have been lied to for decades , being told to buy the latest fastest video cards and cpus to speed up their games when these have done squat to speed pcs
or games! Any cpu/gpu chip over 266MHZ was useless on pata/ide drives. for the last 20 years marketing plots have dumbed people down into useless purchases when the only important upgrade in a pc is the hard drives speed and now that these fast & usefull drives are finally out, theyre priced for millionaires, frankly, imho f**k the pc industry.
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