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Postby terminator on Wed Jun 21, 2006 10:41 am

Just wondering if anyone here has any reports on Ridata brand CF cards?
They seem pretty good value.
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Postby gstark on Wed Jun 21, 2006 10:43 am

Better than this?
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Postby shutterbug on Wed Jun 21, 2006 10:47 am

I have been using the Ridata, no problems so far :wink:

I also got some Transcend ones too..also great :wink:
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Postby terminator on Wed Jun 21, 2006 10:49 am

I admit these ARE great prices but I`m after a 4gig card for my D200.
It seems Birddog is out of stock at the moment.
Just wondering if the Ridata`s are reliable.

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Postby gstark on Wed Jun 21, 2006 10:58 am

terminator wrote:I admit these ARE great prices but I`m after a 4gig card for my D200.
It seems Birddog is out of stock at the moment.
Just wondering if the Ridata`s are reliable.

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I wonder what the ETA is on the 4GB cards from Birdy? I don't think it would be too long.
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Postby shutterbug on Wed Jun 21, 2006 11:10 am

terminator wrote:I admit these ARE great prices but I`m after a 4gig card for my D200.
It seems Birddog is out of stock at the moment.
Just wondering if the Ridata`s are reliable.

Regards,


I have been using the Ridata brand for a couple of years...from 512MB to 4GB cards. They have been great. Recently, since last year I have been investing in a FEW transcend cards :wink: all are great too. Get the 8GB if you have the D200.
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Postby birddog114 on Wed Jun 21, 2006 11:10 am

gstark wrote:
terminator wrote:I admit these ARE great prices but I`m after a 4gig card for my D200.
It seems Birddog is out of stock at the moment.
Just wondering if the Ridata`s are reliable.

Regards,


I wonder what the ETA is on the 4GB cards from Birdy? I don't think it would be too long.


Not too long, I guess!

I have a backorder on my book of:
200 x 4Gb Card
100 x 8Gb card
For my "Taxpayer's funds" customers.
And I urgently want them prior to the end of this financial year.

P.S: from above, I can only put aside a small limited quantity for this community at a special pricing close to my cost, my profits will be off set from a big bills which I send to my customers.
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Postby Nnnnsic on Wed Jun 21, 2006 11:18 am

Honestly, if they're anything like their DVD media, I'd run like hell away from them.
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Postby Hlop on Wed Jun 21, 2006 11:24 am

Nnnnsic wrote:Honestly, if they're anything like their DVD media, I'd run like hell away from them.


Hmm. Bad experience?

I'm using Ridata DVD media all the time and never had any faulty disk. Recently brought up some old files from 2 years old archives - they are all well

Also I have older 1Gb Ridata CF card which is also 2 years old and still working quite well
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Postby shutterbug on Wed Jun 21, 2006 11:33 am

Nnnnsic wrote:Honestly, if they're anything like their DVD media, I'd run like hell away from them.


I have been using their DVD-R's it has been great, no problems :lol:
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Postby DJXtreme on Wed Jun 21, 2006 1:17 pm

i've been using a ridata CF card for a while now. would appear to be a great card, i've not had any trouble with it. its got a life time warranty as well which is some reassurnace. its going pretty cheap on ebay at the moment - 2gb for $79 shipped from sydney. not sure how you'd tell if it was genuine or not.

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Postby admajic on Wed Jun 21, 2006 2:26 pm

I must have "copy" Ridata Disks then, cause all ive had is trouble. 3 months later nothing on the disk. These were 8X burnt at 4X...
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Postby moz on Wed Jun 21, 2006 8:22 pm

I've had RiData cards for a few years now and no problems. Started with a 512MB one and gave it away with the camera, gave the 1Gb to my sister after a couple of years, sold a 2Gb recently, have a 2Gb and 4Gb one left. no problems, but a 52x card is not as fast as the 80x or 120x Transcend I got off Birdy. I'm probably going to buy off Birdy now, the transcend's seem reliable and they're very cheap if you know where to get them :)
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Postby Gordon on Thu Jun 22, 2006 10:36 pm

I started with a 256Mb RIDATA CF card when I bought the CP5700 quite a few years ago, and have used 512MB and 1GB RIDATA cards with the D70, all with zero problems.
I bought a 133X Sandisk 2GB card for the D200 because it was faster than the 80X RIDATA cards available at the time I needed a new card.

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Postby Yi-P on Thu Jun 22, 2006 11:27 pm

I use a 2GB 80x RIDATA card on the D70 as well, no problem until now.
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Postby rmp on Sun Jun 25, 2006 9:05 am

I'm another happy RiData user after several years experience. PowerInNumbers were knocking out a 4Gb 150x for $230+GST which is good value.
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Postby birddog114 on Sun Jun 25, 2006 10:03 am

rmp wrote:I'm another happy RiData user after several years experience. PowerInNumbers were knocking out a 4Gb 150x for $230+GST which is good value.


It's not a real good deal but the Transcend 4Gb 120x is offering from $130.00 - $150.00 locally.
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Postby terminator on Sun Jun 25, 2006 11:21 am

It IS a good deal if they have stock and you need it now and you don`t have enough posts up to buy from here yet
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Postby birddog114 on Sun Jun 25, 2006 11:34 am

terminator wrote:It IS a good deal if they have stock and you need it now and you don`t have enough posts up to buy from here yet
:)


Stock wil be in and out the door very quickly or instantly, first come, first serve.
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Postby rmp on Sun Jun 25, 2006 5:43 pm

birddog114 wrote:
rmp wrote:I'm another happy RiData user after several years experience. PowerInNumbers were knocking out a 4Gb 150x for $230+GST which is good value.


It's not a real good deal but the Transcend 4Gb 120x is offering from $130.00 - $150.00 locally.


That's the good thing about posting deals; someone always tops it five minutes later! Agree that's even better value.

It's a pity the old, small capacity cards can't be recycled and upgraded. Somewhere I've got an 8Mb CF card.
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