Which Compact Flash card is working for you?

There are a ton of posts about which Compact Flash cards work and don't work, but everyone has a different story. I realize the cards must be Type II, but some brands seem to work fine in one mans 1000 and freeze the whole unit in another!

Hopefully this topic can create some kind of consensus on what cards work most frequently in the 1000 so we can all be more informed consumers. I'm still just using the card that comes free with the unit, waiting to figure this out.

So, which card is working for you?

i dont believe the CF card MUST be a type II..the little 32mb card that came with the mpc1k is a 3,3mm thick type I card and others posted type I purchases that seem to work well (if i remember correctly some1 bought a Sandisk Ultra II which despite its name is a type I card and it worked). So i guess the best u can do is to take the mpc with u to specialist store like one that deals only with digital cameras and accessoires. There they will have the time for u and also have demo cards that u can try out.(Or go to mega-store and take a gamble ).Peace.

The manual specifies that the card be Type 2, but that's interesting that Type 1 cards work.

I was passing by Target earlier today and picked up a Lexar 128 MB card that seems to be able to save and load data correctly, though I have had it freeze on me once already.

Anyone else?
Have you found a disc that works consistently?

Yesterday I bought a 128MB DanElec and went to reocrd a session were I used the wohle card and i worked great.
So far so good.
PS: it is type I. It does not HAVE to be type one.
I posted some info about this on an earlier post.
check this website
www.compactflash.org

MISCONCEPTION

The card DOES NOT have to be type II. Type I cards will fit in Type I or Type II drives. Type II cards however will only fit in TYPE II

Most of the CF cards on the market, are of TypeII. It is acctually harder to find TypeI (at least where I live).
Also, there are only 4 companies making compact flash memory cells and all the circuitry to operate them, and there are 20 major companies who are putting them into nice plastic square boxes. So in most cases, whatever you buy, inside you'll get the same $hit anyway.
And all those people saying that they bought some CF cards and they don't work with their MPC, personally, I don't believe in that. I think that most of them don't do enough problem analysis and troubleshooting before blameing the newly bought CF card. Maybe the problem is elsewere? Thing about it. I have 6 different CF cards from different companies and different sizes, and they all work fine with my MPC. Now... I'm aware that some cards may actualy not work properly, but in the previous topics about CF cards, people were exagerating a bit too much.

This is how i see it

OK, this is all interesting stuff.
I agree that people sometimes don't do enough problem solving on their own before griping about tech issues, but I can say for sure that my Lexar disc DID freeze my MPC once, and only once. Since then I've taken to turning the MPC on without the card in the reader, then popping it in before going to the load screen. Maybe it's unrelated, but I've had no freezes since.

I also just received an extensive reply from Akai Tech, take a look:

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We have not done extensive testing, but I've spoken with some users that
have no problem with the SanDisks CF cards. I spoke with a salesman at a
Guitar Center store that received a similar complaint, so he went to
Best Buy, bought a SanDisk 512 MB card and had no problems. Here we've
been using some Fujifilm CF cards that we got at Best Buy as well.

Currently, most Compact Flash cards can be used with both 5.0V and
3.3Vdrives. However, we've heard that a few CF cards (maybe old ones)
support only 5.0V. The CF card interface of the MPC1000 supports only
3.3V so there will be problem if CF card (5.0V only) is used with
MPC1000, but this should be rare and only with older cards.

Another possible issue for some users could be bent pins in the CF
drive. I've had a few reports of this already, with one customer putting
his disk in sideways.


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im starting to get the impression that certain cards will either work or not work, not certain brands of cf cards.

cuz i actually had a 512 sandisk card that i bought from bestbuy and it was really bad in my mpc. it froze the mpc, it froze my mac even. a fuji 256 didnt work for me either but a fuji 128 of the same type - just smaller in capacity, did work (and that is what i have been using)

this is just blaze... loolks like im not the only one with card issues with the mpc1000. im using a 512 san disk.. point blank my MPC1000 wont do ANYTHING while this card is in. when i pop it out it runs fine. the weird thing is it didnt do this when i first put the card in and did a Save All Memory on it. since i did that, its dead. The weird thing is when i connect it to my powerbook, the powerbook sees it and can read wavs from it. Im just gonna buy another one n hope it works. hey, even the pros gotta look for help sumtimes. good luck to u guys. 1

jb wrote:this is just blaze... loolks like im not the only one with card issues with the mpc1000. im using a 512 san disk.. point blank my MPC1000 wont do ANYTHING while this card is in. when i pop it out it runs fine. the weird thing is it didnt do this when i first put the card in and did a Save All Memory on it. since i did that, its dead. The weird thing is when i connect it to my powerbook, the powerbook sees it and can read wavs from it. Im just gonna buy another one n hope it works. hey, even the pros gotta look for help sumtimes. good luck to u guys. 1

Fo real...

are you really Just Blaze?

why a 1000. thought you would have gone with a 4000.

also wouldnt you have pro advice from your own engineers in the studio.

i do have a 4000.. 3 of them butt the 1000 is good when im traveling. and the 1000 is so new noone really knows about it. been tryina call my akai guy for days but he hasnt got back to me.. so the internet was my next best bet.

prove that you are just blaze.

Has anyone been able to use a CF card larger that 128? Could be that that's where the problem is coming in...everyone who's tried 256 or higher seems to be having problems.

Leave the cat alone. Believe it or not.

prove that you're big slick...

Leave the cat alone. Believe it or not.

prove that you're big slick...