Verbatim 4GB 233X Premium CompactFlash Memory Card

I bought one of these cards several years ago and don't even remember why I got it - 2 GB wasn't much in 2018 and it isn't much today. However, I can report that this card works great in a PCMCIA adapter with my new(-to-me) Dell Latitude laptop from 1994, which runs Windows 95. I was afraid the old 486 wouldn't recognize a 2 GB storage device at all, but this card works great. Speed isn't a factor with such old hardware, though with newer machinery it does hit about 20-22 MBps, which is eminently reasonable over USB 2.0 with what is, by all rights, a basic CF card. If you have an older device that's picky about storage sizes (anything DOS- or Win9x-based is going to be, as are many older industrial machines, PDAs, and digital cameras), these little (capacity-wise, that is) cards are getting harder and harder to find - grab 'em while you can.

I have found this Verbatim 2GB CF card excellent for compatibility with partitioning, formatting, and even booting DOS using either a direct CF socket or using a CF-card adaptor with an ATA cable, including the StarTech "3.5in Drive Bay IDE to Single CF SSD Adapter" and the Syba "2.5 IDE to Dual Compact Flash Drive" using a 44-pin to 40-pin cable adaptor (the ATA cable has 80 conductors, but 40-pin connectors) to even copy bootable drives/cards. That should be enough said for anyone who wants that sort of CF card.

Great product

Works as expected. One thing I noticed and this just may be an issue with the camera, but there are times when the camera will lock up and the card access light will stay on a lot longer than I thought it should. Not sure if the Maxxum 7D was designed to work with 4GB cards and that might be the case. I notice that it takes a long time to format the card as well - a lot longer than the 2GB cards anyway. No problems with images being recorded. This is with the camera set for capturing RAW.

I initially purchased one for a secondary CF card in a Cisco router. So far the card has worked well and was formatted effortlessly and is still running strong. The price point is pretty decent, especially considering it's a name brand (versus many of the other options available). Overall a great choice and would highly recommend for operations requiring small amounts of storage space.

- I bought this to have a spare memory card for one of my older digital cameras. Works flawlessly so far, just remember to format the card so that it actually works.

In my Perfect World I would not need Compact Flash. The SD card has pretty much dominated the market for sometime now. This is understandable, people want a standardized storage format so only us who still have antiquated devices need antiquated storage media like Compact Flash. I am one such person and fortunate am I that only one such device is still in my possession, unfortunately said device cannot be substituted or replaced with similar unit for under a couple of grand. I haven't looked if there's a CF to SD adapter because the cards are still plentiful, adapters aren't desirable in many cases. Anyway, before closing let me say only in comparison to 3.5 floppy disk, CD/DVD or USB thumb drive is this thing Compact storage, I have no argument with the Flash designation - CF meets the requirements as A Flash in Pan.

Bought to use in an old Olympus DSLR. For some reason it won’t format in the camera