SimpleTech STI-CF/256 256 MB CompactFlash Card | 
 enlarge | Brand: SimpleTech
Category: CE
Buy New: $99.99
New (1) Used (2) from $6.99
Rating:  72 reviews
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Size: 256 MB
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0
Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.3 x 1.5
Warranty: 1 year warranty
MPN: STI-CF/256
Model: STI-CF/256
UPC: 705487069730
EAN: 0705487069730
ASIN: B0000630TO
Availability: Usually ships in 6-10 business days
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| Features:
| • | Allows you to take more images, listen to more MP3s, or store more files | | • | High speed flash card, sustained write speeds of 1.5MB per second (10X) | | • | Guaranteed compatible with thousands of digital cameras, MP3 players and handheld computers | | • | SimpleTech lifetime guarantee | | • | Highest quality assurance rating available - ISO9001 Certified |
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Product Description
SimpleTech CompactFlashcards are the most popular type of flash storage used in many electronic devices today. These removable, compact cards are ideal storage solutions for taking more pictures with your digital camera, listening to more music with your MP3 player, and increasing the productivity your PDA, palmtop, or handheld PC.
Amazon.com Product Description
SimpleTech CompactFlash cards allow you to take more pictures with your digital camera, increase the power of your PDA, and enjoy more music with your MP3 player. Compact and lightweight, they easily go where you go. In addition, CompactFlash cards have no moving parts, making them more rugged and dependable than hard drives.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 67 more reviews...
 Crapped out on me. July 4, 2005
Jeremy C. Noble (St. Paul, MN)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Sure enough, I tried to get away cheap, and got bit in the you-know-where for it. Three months after buying it, the card is unusable. The lifetime guarantee? You need the original packaging and receipt. I suppose I can only really blame myself for not saving it all, but hey, it was a well reviewed $20 card, right? So now it's a holiday, with everyplace closed, and I have no flash card. You get what you pay for.
 Fantastic card - unbeatable price November 22, 2004
Philemon Spencer (Alabama, United States)
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
I bought this SimpleTech card in early 2003 and have had great results with it. I have shot over 34,000 pictures on it using my Canon PowerShot G3. I use it extensively with my Dell X5 PDA. For the last month, I have been using it in my new Nikon D70 (over 5000 pictures so far from that). I originally paid about $60 for this card.
The card has never failed me. I have given it extreme use. I also have a 256 MB Sandisk card (it failed me once, and I had it replaced under warranty) and a 256 MB Viking card. I had read a review that the Viking card may not be compatible with the G3, so I never used it in that camera. I used the Viking card only in my Canon Powershot S400. However I did use all three cards in my PDA and in the S400. I have used the SimpleTech and the Sandisk both in my D70, as well as a new Sandisk Ultra II 1 GB card.
By comparison, the Sandisk 256 MB card was definitely the slowest when performing the same tasks. It could not keep up with mp3 playback on my PDA. It has noticibly slower write times for photos on my cameras, especially the G3. The SimpleTech and the Viking cards perform about the same as each other. Neither has noticeable slowness on my PDA. Photo write times on the G3 were acceptable with this SimpleTech card. It really did not cause a delay in shooting dut to waiting for pictures to write to the card.
Interestingly, on the D70, this SimpleTech card still keeps up well. The D70 has an advanced buffering system that can hold several (about 12 at normal quality full resolution) images while writing them to the card. This is so much buffer that rarely so I have the need to exceed this many shots in one burst. Thus, when I am using the SimpleTech card, it really does NOT slow down my shooting at all.
By comparison, I do notice that the D70 finishes writing pictures to my ULTRA II card sooner, especially after a burst of several frames. (based on the blinking light that indicates CF card activity) I really never have the need to shoot a continuous burst of frames all the way to a full 256 MB card.
My conclusion is that this 256 MB SimpleTech card is just about the best way to go for CF memory currently. It will cost you less to buy 4 of these (1 GB) than to buy one 1 GB Ultra II card. And then, if you have one of these fail, you will not be out of memory at a crucial time - because you have 3 other cards to use. And you would be able to get a replacement for the failed card later at your convenience.
I highly recommend using multiple smaller cards over single larger cards. 256 MB is my size of choice, and this is my choice among inexpensive 256 MB cards. At the current price (around $20 at the writing of this review) you can't go wrong!
Reliable and fast September 7, 2004
Aravind Babu (Torrance, CA United States)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I have been using this 256MB card for an year now on two of my Canon digital camera and a Casio PDA. It has always been reliable and there is no diminishing in storage capacity. Read and write are slightly faster than my San disk 256MB.
Excellent for Canon Digital Elph S230 August 24, 2004
T. Delmundo (Brooklyn, NY United States)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I don't know what happened with an earlier reviewer, but my SimpleTech CF card works perfectly with my wife's Canon Digital Elph (Powershow S230). Never had any problems using it in my Minolta Dimage 7u either.
'Normal' SimpleTech cards consistantly write faster than other makers CF cards that are "High-Speed", 16x or whatever faster.
CF card speeds do vary depending on make and model of camera. My Dimage 7 writes a 5 megapixel image faster than my Powershot writes a 3.2 megapixel image. So any specific number given for read/write speed is relative and not absolute.
Great Customer Service!! July 15, 2004
H. Kim (South Burlington, VT United States)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I give only 4 star because the CF card quit after a year of hard service. But if it worked flawlessly I would not have known how good of customer service Simpletech has. Hardly any time was spent on getting hold of customer service. Took less then 5 minutes to get RMA# and return instructions. 2 Day Airborne service on replacement card...awsome!
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