A-DATA 16 GB 350x Turbo Compact Flash Card Review 1

A-DATA 16 GB 350x Turbo Compact Flash Card Review

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Value & Conclusion

  • The A-DATA Turbo Series 350x 16 GB Compact Flash Card should retail for about $150 or 100 €. This does make it an interesting choice for extremely small form factor PCs. It also replaces the 266x CF variant as the fastest card of the Turbo lineup.
  • Large enough capacity to be used as a hard drive
  • Justified price/performance
  • Great write speed
  • Excellent read speed
  • Read speeds rival that of small form factor hard drives
  • Great random access times
  • Should be able to handle any of latest generation DSLR cameras you throw at it
  • Lifetime warranty
  • Requires very little power
  • No moving parts
  • Interesting for extremely small PCs
  • 2.5x - 3x the price when compared to "Speedy" series
  • 32 GB MLC SSD SATA/IDE drives do not cost much more.
The A-DATA 16GB 350x Compact Flash card is a good step up from the previous 266x version. The write speeds have improved noticably from ~20 MB/s to almost 30 MB/s. The read speeds of around 50 MB/s are fantastic and should make it a great choice if you require the best possible read performance. The falling prices of SSD drives do limit the use of the card as a boot drive, but if you're going for for an extremely small form factor PC and are willing to overlook the GB/$ ratio for this additional performance, then the A-DATA 350x 16 GB Turbo card should be the perfect choice - especially if a 2.5" SSD won't fit into the space available.
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