Rebate:
SanDisk 4GB Extreme III Compact Flash Cards at Abes of Maine
Abes of Maine has SanDisk Extreme 4GB Extreme III CompactFlash memory cards on sale. Use this tiered rebate [Exp 9/26] to pick up three cards and multiply your savings, resulting in the offers below. Apply $10 off $75 coupon BB10.Buy 1 for $35 - $10 rebate = $25 with free shipping.
Buy 2 for $69 - $30 rebate = $39 with free shipping.
Buy 3 for $105 - $60 rebate - $10 with coupon code BB10 = $35 with free shipping.
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#1
damncrazydba - Posted 11:11 am PDT 07/1/09 (155 Posts)
Why would you buy 2 or 1?
#2
Kyser_Soze - Posted 11:45 am PDT 07/1/09 (418 Posts)
#3
RKLE - Posted 11:47 am PDT 07/1/09 (6201 Posts)
more rebates that will take 3 months to get
#4
cpirius - Posted 11:53 am PDT 07/1/09 (24 Posts)
#2 there is a very large speed difference between this and those cards. I originally got that Kingston Elite Pro 16GB card to use with an IDE to CF adapter and install winxp on for a low power machine and it was unusably slow. Like, took 2 hours to install and 10 mins to start up with nothing installed but windows. The Extreme III cards on the other hand seem at least as fast as a laptop rotational drive, maybe 5400. I have one of these 4GB cards now. The 16GB fast kind are prohibitively expensive however (~$150).
#5
cpirius - Posted 12:17 pm PDT 07/1/09 (24 Posts)
#2 there is a very large speed difference between this and those cards. I originally got that Kingston Elite Pro 16GB card to use with an IDE to CF adapter and install winxp on for a low power machine and it was unusably slow. Like, took 2 hours to install and 10 mins to start up with nothing installed but windows. The Extreme III cards on the other hand seem at least as fast as a laptop rotational drive, maybe 5400. I have one of these 4GB cards now. The 16GB fast kind are prohibitively expensive however (~$150).
#6
doomed - Posted 12:24 pm PDT 07/1/09 (701 Posts)
If have a few sd cards just spend $15 and get a sd to compactflash adapter.
turns your sd or sdhc cards into a cf II device.
turns your sd or sdhc cards into a cf II device.
#7
Norcalba11er - Posted 1:04 pm PDT 07/1/09 (100 Posts)
why buy it? 30mb/s that's why.
#8
jerod - Posted 1:54 pm PDT 07/1/09 (98 Posts)
you do need to remember that Sandisk sends their rebates on a visa card
#9
nutzo - Posted 2:33 pm PDT 07/1/09 (556 Posts)
They also have the Sandisk 4GB SD Extreme III Memory Card
for a couple dollars less.
for a couple dollars less.
#10
Solow - Posted 7:19 pm PDT 07/1/09 (713 Posts)
#11
dave_c - Posted 8:12 pm PDT 07/1/09 (7483 Posts)
Not sure what you're smoking #5, but the Extreme III are the same slow MLC crap as "almost" everybody else sells. Perhaps your mistake was trying to compare only to Kingston who sells leftover lowest bin crap.
Avoid Kingston and Sandisk, you will always get less for the money, they both seem to think they're entitled to a bigger cut than anybody else. The right choice in performance for CF, as always, is to look at the specs meaning not their claim of MB/s but the (nnn)X speed and the CF spec # it adheres to.
For use with a CF-IDE adapter you want at least CF4 spec, and an adapter that is UDMA capable so it doesn't run in PIO mode. The PIO mode factor is probably why the Kingston ran so slow for #5, though it still would've been slower:dollar because it's a Kingston.
Avoid Kingston and Sandisk, you will always get less for the money, they both seem to think they're entitled to a bigger cut than anybody else. The right choice in performance for CF, as always, is to look at the specs meaning not their claim of MB/s but the (nnn)X speed and the CF spec # it adheres to.
For use with a CF-IDE adapter you want at least CF4 spec, and an adapter that is UDMA capable so it doesn't run in PIO mode. The PIO mode factor is probably why the Kingston ran so slow for #5, though it still would've been slower:dollar because it's a Kingston.
#12
jamesd3rd - Posted 8:26 pm PDT 07/1/09 (6 Posts)
Issuing VISA debit cards instead of rebate checks is so lame. I like to use the checks to offset the credit card purchase of the item that has the rebate. I can't do that with a debit card.
#13
jamesd3rd - Posted 2:20 pm PDT 07/2/09 (6 Posts)
coupon code doesn't seem to work!!
#14
Kyser_Soze - Posted 11:13 pm PDT 07/3/09 (418 Posts)
| Quote: |
| Not sure what you're smoking #5 |
Same thing #4 is.
#15
ObamaLovesMarx - Posted 1:06 pm PDT 07/24/09 (10 Posts)
HOWZ THAT "STIMULUS" WORKIN' FOR YA, #10?






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