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Why would you buy 2 or 1?

Why would you buy any? For $35 you could get a Kingston Elite Pro 16GB at Newegg and skip the worry of whether or not the rebate will ever come. They have 4G for $13 if you would rather have multiple cards. I'd go for 1 large myself, but for $4 more for the 3 cards without rebate hassles would be better than this, IMHO.

more rebates that will take 3 months to get

#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).

#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).

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.

why buy it? 30mb/s that's why.

you do need to remember that Sandisk sends their rebates on a visa card

They also have the Sandisk 4GB SD Extreme III Memory Card
for a couple dollars less.

Bought a bunch of these and I did get all my rebate cards.

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.

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.

coupon code doesn't seem to work!!

HOWZ THAT "STIMULUS" WORKIN' FOR YA, #10?