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.

Works fine. Had an old Windows CE device that needed storage, and it didn't want to work with a bigger CF card. This works great. Take note that on some particularly old devices, you'll only be able to format the card as FAT16, which means you can lose a lot of the available storage space if you need to hold many tiny files (all file sizes will be raised to the next highest multiple of 32kB!) vs a handful of big ones.

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