Olympus C5050 Zoom Memory Card Write Speeds
 

By Jens Birch


 

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This is a summary of a survey of the Olympus C5050 write speeds to different memory cards compiled by Jens Birch. Most of the write speeds were kindly measured and reported to me by the members of the Olympus 4040 and 5050 discussion forum. Some write speeds could be found in the archives of that discussion forum and many data points were supplied by Andrzej Wrotniak.

The tests were made according to Andrzej Wrotniak's method in the following way:


Explanation of the tables


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Results, sorted by write time

Cardtype Brand Model Size(MB) Write time in seconds Firmware Reference
CF Transcend 30x 512 3,8 77 (a)
CF Lexar 12x 256 3,9 78 (b)
CF I Transcend 30x 512 3,9 78 (a)
CF Ridata (Ritek) 512 4 ? (a)
CF Sandisk Ultra 512 4,0 ? (b)
CF Transcend 20x 256 4,0 ? (b)
CF PNY (Toshiba?)  256 4,2 76 (c)
CF Transcend 30x 512 4,2 ? (b)
CF I Transcend 30x 512 4,3 77 (a)
CF Lexar 40x 512 4,5 78 (a)
CF Lexar 4x 512 4,5 78 (a)
CF Hagiwara/Toshiba  128 4,6 76 (c)
CF Lexar 12x 256 4,7 78 (a)
CF PQI 256 4,8 77 (a)
CF II IBM Microdrive 1024 5,0 78 (a)
CF Lexar 12x 256 5 78 (a)
CF Lexar 4x 512 5,0 78 (a)
CF Lexar 4x 256 5,0 ? (b)
CF Viking 256 5,0 78 (b)
CF Memorex 128 5,2 76 (c)
CF Sandisk Ultra 256 5,9 76 (c)
CF II IBM Microdrive 1024 6,3 76 (c)
SM Olympus 128 6,7 76 (c)
SM Olympus 32 6,7 76 (c)
xD Olympus 256 6,9 78 (b)
xD Olympus 32 7,0 78 (b)
SM No name 128 7,0 77 (a)
CF Viking 8x - 15x 256 7 ? (a)
xD Olympus 128 7,5 77 (a)
xD Olympus 32 7,5 78 (a)
xD Olympus 32 7,7 77 (a)
SM Sandisk 128 7,9 76 (c)
xD Olympus 256 8,1 78 (a)
xD Fuji 128 8,1 76 (c)
CF Ridata (Ritek) 20x 256 8,2 78 (a)
xD Fuji 256 8,2 76 (c)
SM PNY (Toshiba?) 128 8,2 76 (c)
xD Olympus 32 8,4 77 (a)
CF II Sandisk 12x 512 8,5 77 (a)
xD Olympus/Toshiba 32 8,7 76 (c)
SM Sandisk 128 9,0 77 (a)
CF SimpleTech 256 9 78 (a)
CF Sandisk 256 10,4 76 (c)
CF Sandisk 128 11,1 78 (a)
CF Sandisk 128 12 78 (a)
CF Sandisk 64 18,3 78 (a)
CF FM Computer 32 21,2 78 (a)

 

I thank all those in the Yahoo Olympus4040_5050 forum who have contributed to this test survey and also those who have encouraged me to carry it through. Furthermore, I express my thanks to Andrzej Wrotniak who gave his permission to include his data in this work.
 

Linköping 17/8 2003
Jens Birch