Fastest Flash Card that works?

I got a nice Sandisk 256mb Ultra II CF card. It read and wrote super fast in my CF reader, but it froze my MP.
I grabbed the 128mb CF card out of our digital camera. Worked fine with the MP, but super slow to fill it up with sounds on the computer.
The Sandisk Ultra II had transfer rates of 9 to 10mb per second. Right now it's an over-glorified camera card, I want a fast card to use with the MPC.
Anyone have good experience with a CF card being quick?
If I can buy it in NYC would be a perk.

I noticed transfering files WHILE the CF card is IN the MPC... is VERY slow.. but when I take my card into a card reader and conenct it to my comp the read and writes speeds are a lot faster. Also make sure you format that card that freezes your MPC to FAT... not FAT 16/32 before you put it in the MPC... I had a 512mb on my old 1000 back in the day that froze everytime I went to open it and crashed my MPC... I formated in the PC at FAT and now it works great.

my kingston 1gig works great. transfering via usb will be slow no matter what card you use, a seperate card reader is much quicker.

FAT as in the file format as opposed to NTFS ?
like your actual hard drive?

i use a lexar 512mb. it is a 40x read/write card. so much faster
than the sandisk or delkin i used to use.

pad-ophiliac wrote:my kingston 1gig works great. transfering via usb will be slow no matter what card you use, a seperate card reader is much quicker.

seperate flash card reader is essential! never use the MPC USB link, its TOO DAMN SLOW!

also the read write speeds are controlled by the Card it self, determined by the MPC and PC connection via its device speeds so if one can send fast the card will operate fast, same with writing to the disk. thefore the sources have to to be just as fast. if not the CF card determines the speed, which is not bad but not to any potential that is advertised on the card. i would not worry mush about it cause most of u have never used a MPC2000XL with floppies spanned out over 10 or more disks. now thats alot of time for one beat.
so u see why i dont ask questions and appreciate my little cf card.

Dahkter wrote:I got a nice Sandisk 256mb Ultra II CF card. It read and wrote super fast in my CF reader, but it froze my MP.
I grabbed the 128mb CF card out of our digital camera. Worked fine with the MP, but super slow to fill it up with sounds on the computer.
The Sandisk Ultra II had transfer rates of 9 to 10mb per second. Right now it's an over-glorified camera card, I want a fast card to use with the MPC.
Anyone have good experience with a CF card being quick?
If I can buy it in NYC would be a perk.

I also tried using a SanDisk 512MB card and it frequently locked up my MPC. After switching to a PNY, it worked fine. My advice is to exchange your SanDisk for some other brand.

Thanks all,
I am using a standalone CF card reader, and also did try the formatting to regular FAT (not FAT32), it still made the MPC freeze.
And I've used the SP12 turbo that has the Commodore 64 drive and the 5 1/4" floppies, so I know how slow it can be. But after seeing how fast the Ultra II worked in my card reader, wanted to see if there was a fast card that worked with the MPC. Okay if it takes a while to load on the MP, just want it to be fast on the PC.
I'll check out that Lexar or PNY 40x card, I'll let you know how it works out.
EZ

maybe i did not make my self clear...

there are other factors t why a card might be fast and not as fast as it should.

USB 1.1 & 2.0
MotherBoard
MPC CardReader is USB 1.1
all these have determining factors on the overall speed

its like i have a car that does 200MPH but the flow of fuel can only handle so much which reduces it to 155MPH the inbetween is what affects the overall speed.

anyone for tea?

well my car goes 156 mph and my amp goes to 11

besides the kingston 128mb card that I got free from akai and the 32mb that came with the mpc, that's all i use is sandisk. i've never had a problem transfering files using the mpc or an external reader