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Viking CF256M 256 MB CompactFlash Card

Viking CF256M 256 MB CompactFlash Card

List Price: $74.99
Your Price: $25.17
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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: More is Better
Review: Purchased the 128Meg card for my HP Jornada 548. Loaded some favorite music and found the card half gone. Next step is to order another (this time a 256Meg). The Pocket PC is an incredible device; the expanded memory puts it through the roof. The Viking card has worked perfectly. Buy it, the only thing you give up is paying extra dollars for the same product. Just use the golden rule of computing "always buy twice what you think you need". It's a ten.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Best Bang for the Buck
Review: You cannot go wrong with this card. This is 256Mb of pure pocket power! I have three Viking CompactFlash cards; 32Mb, 128Mb, and 256Mb, which I use in my HP Jornada PocketPC. I use the 256Mb card for MP3s, games, pictures, etc...basically my day-to-day stuff. I put movies and video on the 128Mb card, and use the 32Mb for music composing software. I'm even planning on getting another one for more multimedia! Great product, great price, great power. Highly recommended.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Totally Awesome!!!
Review: This is the most valuable accessory for my iPaq. I store a lot huge documents (>1MB each), eBooks, photos of my family, WMA files, etc. etc. in this little gem. I even stored a game in it and was able to run the app from the card without any performance hitch. A must-have accessory for any iPaq owner.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Great stuff!!
Review: I bought it for my IPAQ and so far it's been working great. I put tons of games and music on it . It's a good feeling that you cannot run out of space easily.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: So it is true, SanDisk, Lexar, and Viking Same Quality!!
Review: I have been researching and researching to determine if the SanDisk, Lexar, and Viking cards all had the same quality standards, read and write speeds, compatibility, etc.

I could not understand why the Viking cards tended to be less expensive (sometimes by quite a large delta), so assumed that there had to be some difference in quality.

SanDisk answered my question yesterday when they filed a lawsuit against Viking Components for purchasing the Lexar internal components for their CompactFlash cards (SanDisk had earlier sued Lexar, too) stating that they are infringing upon SanDisk's patents on the components.

Other than a lot of legal jargon, this tells me that the three cards: SanDisk, Lexar, and Viking are so similar in design, quality, speed, compatibility, etc. that they are able to get into lawsuits about it.

It also tells me one more thing--Lexar and Viking must be SanDisk's biggest competitors because they are the companies they are attacking first.

Kudos to Viking for building a product so similar in design, quality, performance, compatibility, etc. to their competitors but still willing to sell the product at a lower price to the consumer.

P.S. Viking is a very reputable company, I am sure that this matter doesn't deal with them directly. I would assume that it will go back to a battle between SanDisk and Lexar, after all the only thing Viking did was purchase a quality component from Lexar in order to build their flash cards to the highest quality standard.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Wow!! Finally a high capacity compact flash card
Review: Here are the reasons why I like this card:

1. The ability for me to shoot 24-30 images at the highest quality setting using my 3.3 Megapixel camera. I was also frustrated that each image, at the highest quality setting, was over 9 megs. Before I use to degrade the quality of the images in order to fit more on a card, but that is no longer necessary with this monsterous compact flash card.

2. The quality in workmanship. It is made by Viking Components, a company known not only for it's superb reputation and customer service, but also for manufacturing the highest quality products.

3. The price, as always ... knows how to partner with the best and then offer the lowest pricing.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: DO NOT BUY
Review: I've had to return this card TWICE to the manufacturer for a replacement. Due to some unknown cause, after submitting the card to different MILD climates the card ceases to function and even freezes my Canon camera, as a result I've lost TWICE all my valuable photos.
Viking says nothing, I suppose there embarassed.

Arturo

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: sneaky Vikings, cheap on rebates!
Review: The card works fine, it's their rebate policies I'm not fond of.
I bought 2 vikings 256MB cards thinking that I'll get a rebate for each card. NOT the case!

Read the fine prints on item 6 on the rebate form, only 1 rebate per FAMILY ADDRESS, regardless how many products you buy. Not quite the normal rebate policies I encounter.

With so much competition out there, Vikings isn't really helping itself with the rebate policy.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Cheap and just works
Review: I own 3 of these puppies and NEVER had a problem with any of them. They have worked perfectly with my Canon Cameras and they can hold a lot of pictures even at very high resolutions. This really is the best flash card to get.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Think twice before you buy
Review:
I decided to buy this card even after reading many negative reviews on how they stop working and corrupt your data. The card worked for about 6 months of very minimal use, before it self destructed losing all the data on it. The good news is that they seem to have a very efficient return/replacement policy since they do it so often.


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