Product Description

SanDisk's Extreme III 1 GB Compactflash card is the exceptional, unbeatable best in class solution for high profile professional photographers. As the elite flash memory card available on the market, Extreme III has very fast read/write speeds. This line provides the durability and high speed quality demanded by the serious photographer.

Product Details

• Brand: SanDisk
• Model: SDCFX3-1024-901
• Dimensions: 1.30" h x 4.60" w x 6.60" l, .15 pounds

Features

• 1 GB capacity
• Lifetime warranty
• 20 MB/sec sequential read/write speed
• Temperature tested 13 to 185 degrees F.
• Includes RescuePro data recovery software

Amazon.com Product Description
If your digital photography demands blazing speed and durability from your memory media, SanDisk has the memory cards for you. SanDisk Extreme III CompactFlash media are designed for serious professional photographers who demand one of the fastest and most rugged memory cards on the market.

*Based on SanDisk internal testing.

Extreme III media are made to withstand brutal temperatures.

Ships with advanced data recovery software.

Many professionals work in less than ideal conditions, and that's why SanDisk Extreme III CompactFlash cards are built to perform in the most extreme environments and temperatures, from -13 to 185 degrees Fahrenheit. Extreme III media are rigorously temperature, shock, and vibration tested, something you'll definitely appreciate whenever you find yourself shooting and storing pictures in harsh environments, extreme temperatures or at high altitudes.

Extreme III memory cards also feature SanDisk's exclusive and innovative Enhanced Super-Parallel Processing (ESP) Technology for the fastest speeds and highest performance. It means that you are getting the fastest read/write speeds available -- an amazing minimum 20MB per second sequential read and write speed.

Every SanDisk Extreme III CompactFlash card comes with RescuePRO so you can recover images, documents, mail, video, music -- just about any digital file, with ease. Built with leading-edge media recovery algorithms, RescuePro lets you preview recoverable data before you try to retrieve it. With RescuePRO's unique recovery algorithm for MPEG audio and MPEG video recovery (MPEG-1/2/3) what you see, and what you hear, is what you can recover.

For owners of SanDisk Extreme products, SanDisk maintains a dedicated, priority technical support hotline, and you get a lifetime limited warranty. Extreme III media also ships with a travel case that keeps your memory cards organized.

What's in the Box
1 GB CompactFlash card, travel case, and RescuePro data recovery software mini-CD.

Customer Reviews

It is the Camera writes to buffer speed that limits you...
So to answer the questions to "frenzel" and "Izzybee" none of you two would be able to utilize high transfer speed of this card nor for ie. Lexar's 80x , you are simply limited with your Camera Writes to buffer speed. It is often hard if not possible at all to find that information and Camera Manufacturers do not disclose this information. You can gain the speed for transferring the images from these cards to your computer if you use USB 2.0 or Fire Wire card readers, but that is all the gain you will see, so to gain fast response of your Camera you may need New Cameras that support faster writes to Camera's buffers, something like Nikon D70 or New Canon Digital Rebel 350, I am taking about "Prosumer level" of DSLR's hope this would help...

Fastest Card Yet For the Rebel XT
This is the fastest card yet as of March 28, 2005. Using the data collected at: http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/index.asp in the CF Database. I was able to make a more informed decision. I had my heart set on the Hitachi Microdrive 3GB when initially purchasing my Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT 350D. However, after reviewing the results of the write speed tests, I immediately switched to the San Disc Extreme III. For my camera write speed using this CF is 4.888MB/sec JPEG and 6.263MB/sec RAW compared to the Hitachi Microdrive 6GB 3.466MB/sec JPEG and 4.584MB/sec RAW. Its highly recommended that you check out Rob Galbraith site to help sift through the confusion of which CF Card performs best with your camera.

fast card is a good thing
I have never noticed any in-camera performance difference between my SanDisk Extreme III 1GB and SanDisk Ultra II 1GB cards.
But, Extreme III consistently gives me about 50% faster download speed with both USB2 and USB1 (yes, unfortunately I sometimes have to use such old hardware). Eventually, we all need to transfer the photos from compactflash to somewhere else, and the extra time needed for the slower cards is so annoying to me I plan to never again buy any card slower than Extreme III.
--- Brent