Olympus E500 write speed test




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Conclusions







Test procedure

This is a a survey of the Olympus E500 write speeds to different memory cards. The tests were made according to the following way:
  1. The camera was set to the Sequential shooting mode.
  2. Four RAWs were shot (that is until the buffer fills). Each RAW has a size of 13797 KB.
  3. The time the camera takes to write the four RAWs to the memory card was mesured. More specifically the time since the shutter was pressed and when all RAWs were written.



Detailed results (unsorted)


Card brand and type Type Size Speed Time
 (s)
Write speed
(MB/s)
Who
Muse Digital CF 1GB 40x 11 4.9 John Forster
Sandisk Extreme II CF 2GB 66x 11 4.9 John Forster
Sandisk Extreme III CF

4.5 12.0
Sandisk Standard CF 512MB
14 3.8
TwinMOS Ultra X CF 2GB 140x 14 3.8
Transcend CF 4GB 120x 8.2 6.6
Sandisk CF 1GB
11.7 4.6 Sergey Green
Sandisk Extreme III CF 1GB
5.25 10.3 Sergey Green
Sandisk Extreme III CF 1GB
5.5 9.8 Velin
Centrios Pro Series CF

11 4.9
Sandisk Extreme III CF 4GB
133x
6 9.0 John Forster
Lexar, write acceleration technology
CF

80x
11
4.9

Transcend
CF
1GB
80x
10
5.4
Adam J
Kingston Elite Pro High Speed
CF
1GB

11
4.9

Kingston
CF
1GB
50x
10.3
5.3
Martin Georgiev
SanDisk Extreme III
CF
2GB
5.275
10.2
Yannick G
PNY
CF
1GB
10x
15
3.6
Jeanmarc Lavoie
Lexar
CF
512MB
12x
12
4.5

Sandisk Ultra II
CF
1GB

9
6.0

Kodak (made by Lexar)
CF
1GB

15
3.6

Kingston Ultimate
CF
2GB
100x
12
4.5
Johannes Horn
Kingston Elite Pro
CF
1GB
50x
10.3
5.2
Johannes Horn
ADATA MYFLASH
CF
1GB
120x
6.7
8.0

Lexar Profesional
CF

80x
7.5
7.3
Aris Routis
Sandisk
CF
512MB

12.2
4.5

Olympus
xD
1GB

27
2.0

Transcend
CF
2GB
120x
6.8
8.0

RiDATA (RiTEK) Pro
CF
8GB
150x
7.4
7.3

Lexar CF II write acceleration
CF
1GB
80x
10.1
5.3
Matt Green
Olympus xD H
xD
1GB

22.1
2.4
Matt Green
Kingston Ultimate
CF
2GB
133x
6.3
8.6

ATP ProMax CF
CF
2GB
150x
6.0
9.0
Sean Pery
Sandisk Extreme IV
CF
4GB
266x
6.5
8.3
Vic Watkins





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