SanDisk 1 GB Extreme III SD Card reviewed

[Colin Dunstan]

Tanker Bob reviewed the SanDisk 1GB Extreme III SD card, which according to specs offers a minimum of 20MB/sec sequential write and read speed. That is fast. Regular SD cards offer a speed of only 1.1 to 1.6MB/sec. The reviewer concludes:

Objective numbers are great, but what do they mean in daily life? The Extreme III proved extremely quick during normal use. Hotsyncing large files to the card especially showcase this card's pace-setting write performance. During Hotsync, files on the order of 200KB flash by so fast you barely have time to read their names on the screen. Transferring large files from RAM to the card and visa versa also proved speedy. Music proceeds uninterrupted in background play even while accessing the card in another application on the 400MHz T3. Overall, the Extreme III subjectively feels a tad faster than my Panasonic 512MB SD card. In this case, performance backs the advertising hype.