I can only speak of my 40GB Hitachi HTC426040G9AT00 and a 16GB Silicon Power "300X" Compact Flash card so far (the Sandisk Extreme III 16GB Compact Flash being a lot slower). HDtune HTC426040G9AT00: http://www.onderka.com/wp-content/hdtune_x41t_HTC426040G9AT00.png HDtune Silicon Power 300x: http://w...

Do you also have those frequent "Disk icon is lit and I almost cannot do anything" experiences? Thank, Stefan Edit - as usual: I am an IT guy, so I call myself experienced. I also have gentoo Linux installed on this X41, and the problem is more or les the same there. Disk activity and unresposivenes...

So, benchmark time. As I said I have 2 compact flash cards - a Sandisk Extreme III (16GB, MWDMA2) and a Silicon Power (16GB, UDMA4). Concerning read speed both cards are quite a bit apart, concerning write speed they're quite similar: too slow, I think. The Silicon power is running at UDMA4 accordin...

the search function in a forum usually is not just decoration.... searching for "FHD32GC18M", first hit, same problem & explanation: http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=54036 or a jumper-issue? hit #2: http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?p=385154#385154 Stefan an edit as usual: an intere...

Good morning. All my adapters arrived the past few days and I'm in the middle of "adapter world" now. Just some information I stumbled upon during initializing my CF-Card: I have a Sandisk Extreme III 16GB card by now (MWDMA2 only), as the Silicon Power (16GB UDMA) is not yet shipped. I found out th...

but when I insert it in the media slot on my HP Pavilion dv2415us [...] it sees no data, and prompts me to format the card First off, you didn't forget MS KB934428? Get it at http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B934428&x=16&y=14 So good day now. After living with Thinkpads for years now ...