A-DATA 32GB Speedy Compact Flash Review 6

A-DATA 32GB Speedy Compact Flash Review

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Value & Conclusion

  • The A-DATA Speedy Series 32 GB Compact Flash Card should retail for about $150 or 100€. This does make it an interesting choice for extremely small form factor PCs.
  • Large Capacity
  • Good price per gigabyte
  • Great random access times
  • Fast enough for everyday use in a DSLR camera
  • Lifetime warranty
  • Requires very little power
  • No moving parts
  • Interesting for extremely small PCs
  • Slow hard drive performance
  • 32 GB MLC SSD SATA/IDE drives do not cost much more.
As is the case with every product, which pushes the envelope, the question arises "what can one use it for?" The A-DATA Speedy Series Compact Flash card is a great indicator of what is to come. Currently the card is not available as a "Turbo" variant from A-DATA, but surely will be in the near future. The large capacity of the 32 GB Speedy opens up new possibilites as a hard drive to be used in extremely small form factor computers. With the first Atom based boards being shown off at Computex this year, these two parts should make a very interesting combination. The question is, do you require such a large capacity card and are you willing to sacrifice performance for this size, or are you willing to spend the same or even a bit more and grab the 16 GB Turbo series card? That is essentially the one point setting the large, 32 GB Speedy CF card apart from the faster units: price per gigabyte. In other words: you get more space for the same money.
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