Just wanted to share some of my observations regarding CF cards I have made during the previous few months using RAW extensively.
This spring I have bought three 32GB KombuterBay 1000x cards to use with the 5D mkii (using the Oct24 build).
Two of them have died on me since then. One crashed during shooting Raw with the camera going black. Pulling the battery resoved
this, but the card kept crashing afterwards. Luckily all data was retrievable.
On the second instance the same thing happend, but the card remained inaccessible to both the camera and two different card
readers I have tried (under Linux and Mac). Which was a pain in , well it was a pain, I can tell you loosing the footage completely, since i thought,
oh well I can retrieve the data on the computer, but this time it wouldn't even mount..
I have now bought Sandisk's top of the line UDMA7 cards hoping to not have this happen again to me, though I suspect that with the massive amount of
data the cards are filled up with, it will always remain a matter of time before they say good-bye.
But I guess it is false economy for the 'intermediate to heavy' user to buy cheaper cards and having to replace them more often.
So from my experience I would advice users that are going to use RAW video quite regularly to stay away from KomputerBay cards.
This spring I have bought three 32GB KombuterBay 1000x cards to use with the 5D mkii (using the Oct24 build).
Two of them have died on me since then. One crashed during shooting Raw with the camera going black. Pulling the battery resoved
this, but the card kept crashing afterwards. Luckily all data was retrievable.
On the second instance the same thing happend, but the card remained inaccessible to both the camera and two different card
readers I have tried (under Linux and Mac). Which was a pain in , well it was a pain, I can tell you loosing the footage completely, since i thought,
oh well I can retrieve the data on the computer, but this time it wouldn't even mount..
I have now bought Sandisk's top of the line UDMA7 cards hoping to not have this happen again to me, though I suspect that with the massive amount of
data the cards are filled up with, it will always remain a matter of time before they say good-bye.
But I guess it is false economy for the 'intermediate to heavy' user to buy cheaper cards and having to replace them more often.
So from my experience I would advice users that are going to use RAW video quite regularly to stay away from KomputerBay cards.