1 GB CompactFlash for $249.99!

[Jason Dunn]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.ssdonline.com/detail_page.cfm?productid=SDCFB1000768&affid=T99' target='_blank'>http://www.ssdonline.com/detail_pag...00768&affid=T99</a><br /><br /></div>Sweet Mother of Memory! 8O We've known about these 1 GB cards for a while now, but the last time I checked prices were up in the $600 to $800 range. 1 GB for $269.00 US? And only $249 if you sign up for free as a State Street Direct member? Amazing! I don't know how long they'll have stock at this price since this is flying around the 'Net rapidly, <a href="http://www.ssdonline.com/detail_page.cfm?productid=SDCFB1000768&affid=T99">so act fast!</a> (affiliate)

[RickP in AZ]

Nuts! I know that my wife wouldn't ok buying this without her direct "ok" following a long talk of "Why do you *need* this hunny?"

Sigh... hopefully this shows the beginning of a trend. (And to think, I was going to look for a 512MB CF in 3 short weeks.)

[Eitel]

Actually, if you became a member, the price drops to $249.95!!

Too bad I'm broke this week. I'm sure that when I get the money, the price will go up again.

[sshattuck]

Does anyone know if this is a Type I or Type II?

[MasterOfMoo]

:way to go:

I just ordered mine. Hooray for payday!!! I was just complaining about how quickly I filled up my 256MB CF card (mostly Audible books and MP3s).

And I love the additional $20 off if you register (free) for the "Member's Pricing" option.

Thanks for a great find :)

[RickP in AZ]

emailed the wife with a terrible sob story about how great this would be... no respose yet.... :(

[vincentsiaw]

this is a sweet deal!

[Gremmie]

Does anyone know if this is a Type I or Type II?

It would be Type I

[Rirath]

D'oh... there are times being broke stinks. :) Ah well, tis a fair price to pay for being a lazy bum. ;)
For now I'm still doing A-ok with my 128 CF. 8)

Seriously though, as truly awesome as 1gb of memory would be to have... I still have trouble playing $250 for memory. I'm starting to wonder if I'm alone in this. I mean, unless you have something major to store other than just more music than you could ever hear or a lot of movies... Eh, who knows. If I had $250 sitting around I'd jump at this so I guess I can't really talk. Think if you'd paid $600 for this. :?

[nobody]

I have problem paying $250 for a memory too. I normally wait til it drops to around 100 mark.

[RickP in AZ]

Rirath,
Not really, I don't do music or video or even heavy gaming on my iPAQ but my intention is to have a "universal" medium to go from iPAQ, to desktop, to laptop, to camera, to...

Frequently I am down at my parent's house "borrowing" their broadband connection. all too often I end up downloading large files which are then transfered to my home via CF card.

[jgt]

8)

Well, I ordered one a little while ago. The SSD site said "InStock". Apparently, that is the same thing as "we hope to have them by next Wednesday", which is what they say once you order it.

Maybe it was too good to be true

[bljarv]

I just bought a new card for Christmas...Doh!

I want to know if there's a way to use this technology for storage on our desktops? :wink: It's obviously getting cheaper to manufacture.

[st63z]

I'll reluctantly have to pass, too :( Can't afford to stray from my linear storage strategy -- SD for memory, CF for other things. And more and more of my gadget purchase plans are only taking SD (digicams, ultracompact PPC's w/ SD only)...


Plus I figure you can always put the SD memory card into that flush CF adapter, so I think this is the best way for me right now...

[Pony99CA]

I wish this deal had been available around Thanksgiving, when I bought my 512 MB CF card. :-( Between MP3s and my GPS software and maps, that's all full now. I'd love to put more MP3s and the entire West Coast of the US on a card.

Sadly, car repairs and new tires seem a bit more important right now. :-)

Steve

[cdcooker]

Do you know the speed of this CF card. 4x or higher?

thanks

[BugDude10]

Hmmm, I just ordered a $200 1GB MicroDrive last weekend. I've always preferred the no-moving-parts regular CF cards to the idea of a MicroDrive, but I wanted lots of space at a reasonable price. I would not have imagined that the 1 GB CF card would reach this price point this quickly. The MDs are due in stock until 02/12, the SSD page says these CF cards are due in stock 02/04... at least I have time to think... :?

[RickP in AZ]

And they have another:
http://www.ssdonline.com/detail_page.cfm?ProductID=DACOMFLASH1000&cfid=4972772&cftoken=67110107&CategoryID=8 Again 1GB CF card for $260 with the "member" discount. It is an off brand though.

As my all too intelligent wife said, "What's the catch?"

[Gamma Ray]

This is an amazing price, but I too have moved away from CF to SD. After using an H1910 for two months, I could never go back to the large PPCs and CF. I just wish these discounts would migrate to the 512MB SD cards. This site is selling one for $375 which is average, but almost four times the price of a 256MB SD card. $200 is my magic number on this...

[Rirath]

My problem is (and feel free to tell me what my problems are :wink: ) I don't anything else that can use a CF card, and I don't plan on owning anything else that could use a CF card in the foreseeable future. Makes it a bit harder to justify. My camera and mp3 player still runs on Smartmedia. (Not SD, SM. :oops: ) They work fine for me though.

[JimDantin]

MemorySuppliers.com has the same Sandisk card for $259. Looks like Sandisk made a MAJOR price change!
http://www.memorysuppliers.com/san1gb10comf.html

[Pony99CA]

And they have another:
http://www.ssdonline.com/detail_page.cfm?ProductID=DACOMFLASH1000&amp;cfid=4972772&amp;cftoken=67110107&amp;CategoryID=8 Again 1GB CF card for $260 with the "member" discount. It is an off brand though.

Without being a member, that off-brand card is $10 more than the SanDisk one. I didn't compare the member prices, but why buy the off-brand if the SanDisk is the same price?

Steve

P.S. Please don't post long links "naked". The board software doesn't wrap them, and it resets the margins for the whole page, forcing horizontal scrolling. Use the URL tags, like this:


[url=http://www.ssdonline.com/&lt;TRUNCATED>]
Off-Brand 1 GB CF Card
[/url]


The above looks like the following when posted:

Off-Brand 1 GB CF Card
(http://www.ssdonline.com/detail_page.cfm?ProductID=DACOMFLASH1000&amp;cfid=4972772&amp;cftoken=67110107&amp;CategoryID=8)
See how much nicer that is? :-)

[Jonathon Watkins]

I will be sure to 'clothe' my URLs in future. :wink:

Sigh. I don't even want to know the price of 1Gb CF in the UK. :evil:

[dean_shan]

I've always wanted a 1GB card (when ever I look at catalogs I find myself drooling and muttering to myself "Me wanty") but the price of them has kept it a dream. It's good to see the price go down but $250 is still to much for me.

[Bill Best]

Looks like Sandisk did lower their prices across the board. Here it's available for a slightly cheaper price at $225 US.

http://www.compuplus.com/insidepage.php3?sid=86k3660e78y0d4x&id=472

I think they will ship to Canada as well. I am going to call them Monday morning to confirm.

Good luck!

Bill.

[shawnc]

Looks like Sandisk did lower their prices across the board. Here it's available for a slightly cheaper price at $225 US.

http://www.compuplus.com/insidepage.php3?sid=86k3660e78y0d4x&id=472

I think they will ship to Canada as well. I am going to call them Monday morning to confirm.

Good luck!

Bill.

This is getting ridiculous! I JUST threw away the packaging for my recently purchased 1G microdrive @ $199. I would have GLADLY paid the extra $25 for this card :evil: !

For those who think they will never need this much storage, think again. If you have an extensive music selection I would HIGHLY recommend this card (if you don't have a problem with sandisk). Both of my SD cards are sandisk and I have had zero problems up to this point.

[jet8810]

I would LOVE 1 GB of storage, but I cannot justify $225 on memory for my e740. That's a lot of money!

[CESkins]

Do you know the speed of this CF card. 4x or higher?

thanks

Good question. Especially since the Sandisk website speaks of faster CF cards than their standard versions for use when speeds counts (e.g. 5 Megapix digicams). I think I will wait and see what the prices look like on the faster 1 GB CF cards in the next few months. I will need at least 800 MB of CF card space for Up-To-Date medical reference software and would want more than the remaining 200 MB for apps and data files. I would rather get my hands on a 1.5 or 2 GB CF card. Hopefully, the prices plummet in the next few months. :)

[gorkon280]

The new official prices for 1 GB CF cards at Sandisk.com is 299. Major retailers have not reduced their prices just yet. I was going to spend part of my Tax refund on a microdrive, but I might get this instead. Since it's a type 1 card, it will also fit in my camera too. Check it out here! (http://www.esend.com/sandisk/products.asp?value=MECF&valueIs=dept)

Gork


Looks like Sandisk did lower their prices across the board. Here it's available for a slightly cheaper price at $225 US.

http://www.compuplus.com/insidepage.php3?sid=86k3660e78y0d4x&amp;id=472

I think they will ship to Canada as well. I am going to call them Monday morning to confirm.

Good luck!

Bill.

[Pony99CA]

The new official prices for 1 GB CF cards at Sandisk.com is 299. Major retailers have not reduced their prices just yet. I was going to spend part of my Tax refund on a microdrive, but I might get this instead. Since it's a type 1 card, it will also fit in my camera too. Check it out here! (http://www.esend.com/sandisk/products.asp?value=MECF&valueIs=dept)

Interesting. I wonder if SanDisk is going to come out with higher capacity CF and SD cards soon. Pretec announced 1.5GB, 2 GB and 3 GB CF cards at CES, I believe, and Panasonic has 512 MB and 1 GB SD cards.

I checked that link, too. It's not really SanDisk; it's esend.com, although the SanDisk site does send you there if you want to buy things. Their price for the 256 MB SD Cruzer was $120, but a plain 256 MB SD card was $190. I guess they haven't updated all of their prices yet.

Steve

[rhmorrison]

Click on the SHOP button on the top left of the POCKET PC Thoughts web page and you can find a link to a 1 GB SanDisk CompactFlash card (http://pocketpcthoughts.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php/masterid=551843/ut=d456d2d3bfccc197) for only $224.99.

[Jonathon Watkins]

Darn these things are getting cheap! 8O

(What's about to be released the cynic in me asks?)

[TheNewSteve]

http://www.ecost.com has the SanDisk 1 Gig cards for $225.

-Steve

[christak]

1GB SanDisk from Dell $190...

http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/ProductDetail.aspx?category_id=476&keyword=&mnf=&prst=&prEnd=&sku=A0006297&mnfsku=&SearchType=&Page=productlisting.aspx&spagenum=1&Pageb4Search=&InStock=&items_per_page=25&orderby=&image_flag=True&refurbished=&c=us&l=en&cs=555&iCompatid=

[Pony99CA]

1GB SanDisk from Dell $190...

http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/ProductDetail.aspx?category_id=476&keyword=&mnf=&prst=&prEnd=&sku=A0006297&mnfsku=&SearchType=&Page=productlisting.aspx&spagenum=1&Pageb4Search=&InStock=&items_per_page=25&orderby=&image_flag=True&refurbished=&c=us&l=en&cs=555&iCompatid=

A 1 GB card for under $200! :crazyeyes: That's even cheaper than the best deal of $206 that was posted on the home page. Even after California sales tax and shipping, it's still under $210.

You should submit that price as a news item.

Steve

P.S. Howver, you get my usual rant. :-)

Please don't post long links "naked". The board software doesn't wrap them, and it resets the margins for the whole page, forcing horizontal scrolling. Use the URL tags, like this:


[url=http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/ProductDetail.aspx?category_id=476&sku=A0006297&Page=productlisting.aspx&spagenum=1&image_flag=True&c=us&l=en&cs=555]
Dell's Deal for SanDisk 1 GB CF cards
[/url]


The above looks like the following when posted:

Dell's Deal for SanDisk 1 GB CF cards
(http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/ProductDetail.aspx?category_id=476&sku=A0006297&Page=productlisting.aspx&spagenum=1&image_flag=True&c=us&l=en&cs=555)
See how much nicer that is? :-)

Also, for advanced users, notice how I shortened the URL? I removed all items after the "?" that had an equal sign ("=") followed by an ampersand ("&"). Those are parameters that aren't necessary to display that page. As you'll see, my link above still works. :-)

[shawnc]

This is just too good to pass up. I just obtained a return authorization number from HP for my 1G MD that I purchased a few weeks ago. As much as I HATE returning items, this was just to much. A type I card for slightly LESS than the type II? I didn't think I would ever see the day.

With price being close to equal, if anyone can offer any thoughts as to why the MD is better than the type I, I would appreciate it.

Steve - thanx for the clean link. Took me right to the Dell page I needed to place the order.

[Pony99CA]

With price being close to equal, if anyone can offer any thoughts as to why the MD is better than the type I, I would appreciate it.

I've heard the MicroDrive is actually faster. If that's true, it means Flash RAM is a lot slower than dynamic RAM. The MicroDrive will take a lot more power, I believe, and has moving parts.

All in all, I'd probably take the RAM card over the MicroDrive, too.


Steve - thanx for the clean link. Took me right to the Dell page I needed to place the order.

The original link worked just fine; I just cleaned it up. Christak gets the credit for finding the link. :-)

Steve

[shawnc]

Steve - thanx for the clean link. Took me right to the Dell page I needed to place the order.

The original link worked just fine; I just cleaned it up. Christak gets the credit for finding the link. :-)

Steve[/quote]

Christak,

Didn't mean to slight you. Great job on the link. :rock on dude!:

[nozy]

:) :) :)
I purchased a 512 CF Card last night, NEW on Amazon for $84.99 after $35 rebate. Sale ends 2/8/03, (TOMORROW). :)

[nozy]

Sorry, it was $89.99, not $84.99. But it still gets 3 smiles. :D :D :D

[Pony99CA]

:) :) :)
I purchased a 512 CF Card last night, NEW on Amazon for $84.99 after $35 rebate. Sale ends 2/8/03, (TOMORROW). :)
I remember the good old days when I got my Viking 512 MB CF card on Amazon. I paid about $106, after a $30 discount and a $50 rebate (when I get it). Those days were around Thanksgiving 2002, less than three months ago. :-(

I guess I should be thankful I didn't buy a 1 GB card then. :-)

Steve

[nozy]

:D
I looked at the $109 512 CF card night before last, then I actually went back last night to order it. When i got there, much to my pleasant surprise, it was $89.99. While trying to post this message today I found another post on this forum where I could have gotten it for about $75 if I had used a code. But it will not accept a code after the order is placed, but I am not complaining. I'll take it. :D

[Kati Compton]

I remember the good old days when I got my Viking 512 MB CF card on Amazon. I paid about $106, after a $30 discount and a $50 rebate (when I get it). Those days were around Thanksgiving 2002, less than three months ago. :-(

I guess I should be thankful I didn't buy a 1 GB card then. :-)


I'm with ya Steve. And I didn't have the $30 discount. ;)

[Jonathon Watkins]

So WHY are prices dropping like this at the moment? What is going on? Is there a new generation of technology about to be released? Not complaing! (Apart from not being able to get those prices :cry: In the UK the best pirce I can see for a 1Gb CF card in the UK is £472.50 or $750 from Expansys. 8O )

[Pony99CA]

So WHY are prices dropping like this at the moment? What is going on? Is there a new generation of technology about to be released?

Did you miss my post on page 3 (http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=8106&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=29) of this thread? Pretec has announced 1.5 GB, 2 GB and 3 GB CF cards. I'm hoping SanDisk will be following suit.

Steve

[rollout]

$224.99 over on Amazon (with free shipping). If you ordered by YESTERDAY (DAMN!) you got a $75.00 rebate!

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00006AE3K/qid=1044669496/br=1-6/ref=br_lf_e_6//002-2389589-4820019?v=glance&s=electronics&n=1092214

[jet8810]

yep rollout! Luckily for me, I ordered it in Friday actually. Got it about 12 hours before it came out of stock and the ship date was AFTER the postmark date for the rebate. I guess being a compulsive buyer pays off sometimes! :lol:

[Gamma Ray]

As an H1910 owner, these CHEAP CF prices are killing me! A SD 512MB card still costs more then the 1GB CF cards you guys are scooping up! If anyone finds some cheap SD PLEASE let us know! :)

[Pony99CA]

As an H1910 owner, these CHEAP CF prices are killing me! A SD 512MB card still costs more then the 1GB CF cards you guys are scooping up! If anyone finds some cheap SD PLEASE let us know! :)
256 MB SD cards are now fairly reasonably priced at well under $100.

Steve