I have a Pentax EI-C90 which uses PCMCIA-ATA cards. Is there any difference between using ATA cards and Compact Flash cards with an adapter? Is there any advantage to sticking with ATA or should I switch to CF?

-- Jacque Steyn (jsteyn@altavista.net), February 20, 2000

Answers

I would suppose it would depend on which style of card reader you would have. Another factor to concider is, do you have a laptop? The laptop, I am told will read the pcmcia cards faster than a USB cardreader. The laptop treats the card like a harddrive, and thus is very fast. "Mechanically" though, I couldn't tell you. I have not researched it, but I would think that since the CF cards are more popular than the ATA card, you could get higher capacity at a lower price.

If speed is a concern, and you have a good laptop, I would go with the PCMCIA card

dave

-- David Erskine (davide@netquest.com), February 23, 2000.