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

To: Dave who wrote (24747)	1/25/2004 9:54:58 AM
From: Art Bechhoefer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 60323

Dave, the thing to remember about SanDisk is that its expertise is in design and not in production. That's why SanDisk partners with Toshiba in jointly owning and operating a factory. That's why SanDisk partners with Tower Semiconductor (along with Intel and others) for a fabrication facility in Israel. SanDisk is a small company that has done very well by forming strategic alliances with companies that have complementary skills that SanDisk lacks. This is a very healthy strategy to pursue in what is turning into a commodity business. On the read/write speed of various cards, I have been unable to find measureable differences, even using the Lexar high speed cards. I guess the reason has more to do with a particular camera and resolution than anything else. On my old Nikon 950, it took about 30 seconds to write a TIFF image. On my Canon S50, I can take either a raw image or high resolution jpg. I haven't had a need to use or test for write speeds on raw images, but on the highest resolution jpg image, the write speed is about 1 second, and the camera is ready for another shot in about 1 - 5 seconds, depending on whether I'm using the internal flash. I think that the write speed capabilities of these newer model flash cards are greater than what the average camera demands. I assume that there might be a difference in what a particular card could do with, say, an 11 mpixel image, but I haven't reached that portion of the stratosphere yet. Art