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Technology Stocks : WDC/Sandisk Corporation -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Steve 667 who wrote (14073)	8/21/2000 4:21:19 PM
From: Rocky Reid	Respond to of 60323

Gut feeling that SNDK is finally going to be able to break Up out beyond $78 this week. A quick move to the $90's or even $100 isn't out of the question for the near term if this happens. Looks like the money flows are defintely getting into the chips again, and the momentum is swinging heading into what should be a banner Christmas Season. Hopefully the new Nike and Compaq mp3 players will get a great deal of exposure and tag along Sandisk with them.

To: Steve 667 who wrote (14073)	8/21/2000 6:00:36 PM
From: Tumbleweed	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 60323

Steve, Re the test, as I said, strictly non-scientific, Sandisk 4Mb card, Lexar 32Mb. Copied 4Mb worth of JPEGS onto each (9 files). Used the stopwatch function on my watch<g>, and did each test 3 or 4 times, and the stopwatch to time the cycle delay on my digicam (could have used a grandfather clock for that). One interesting fact I noticed, which I have also seen discussed in rec.photo.digital. There was a noticable difference in write time between writing to the 32Mb card, depending upon if the card had a few JPEGs (1 or 2) or was nearly full. I dont think this is Lexar, other people have made similar comments for other vendors. The cycle time on my (now positively ancient) HPC20 digicam was 7 seconds for empty Sandisk or Lexar, but 11 seconds on a nearly full Lexar. If anyone wants to send me a 32Mb Sandisk card <g> (or a new Canon S20?) I'll happily run some tests on those. Its difficult to get price comparisons because a difference between vendors from one place may be eclipsed by another seller. You really need to see a trend over time. At one point someone (Ausdauer?) was keeping track of Sandisk availability?and price? from an on line store. I cant find a store that sells Sandisk and Lexar (though I did note with some irritation that 32Mb of CF from buy.com UK is UKP£109($165) whereas 64Mb of the same make CF from buy.com US is $110 but thats another story.. Tw