What CF-cards can I use with the VP4.

Submitted by Carlo on Wed, 10/07/2009 - 15:04

Unfortunately, we are not able to test each and every CF-card that is available market nowadays, but we will try to keep track of cards that can be used or that do not work properly with the Vitaport 4 system.

Until this moment, following cards are tested with the Vitaport 4 systems:

Card Info
 

Sandisk ULTRA Compactflash Card 2GB and 4GB

FUNCTIONALITY: 100%, very reliable.

ATTENTION: 
MUST be 30MB/s, slower versions will not work reliable!

ADVISE: USE! (Preferred)

Sandisk ULTRA Compactflash Card 2GB and 4GB

FUNCTIONALITY: 100%, very reliable.

 

ADVISE: USE! (Preferred)
 

Toshiba Compactflash Card 4GB

FUNCTIONALITY: 100%.

 

ADVISE: USE!
 

Transcend CompactFlash 256Mb

FUNCTIONALITY: 100%.

ATTENTION: 
Not all Transcend cards work reliable. Use only the versions and sizes exactly as identified!

ADVISE: USE!
 

TwinMOS Ultra-X 4Gb

FUNCTIONALITY: 100%.

 

ADVISE: USE!
 

Transcend CompactFlash 8Gb

FUNCTIONALITY: 100%.

ATTENTION: 
Not all Transcend cards work reliable. Use only the versions and sizes exactly as identified!

ADVISE: USE!

Transcend Compactflash Card 2GB

FUNCTIONALITY: Write timing problems causing recorder malfunctioning. 

ADVISE: DO NOT USE!
 

Sandisk ULTRA Compactflash Card 2GB

FUNCTIONALITY: Write timing problems causing recorder malfunctioning. Too slow (15MB/s). Check for 30MB/s version at top of this list)

ADVISE: DO NOT USE!
 

EMTEC Professional Compactflash Card 4GB

FUNCTIONALITY: Functions OK, but has very high Power Consumption, causing the Vitaport 4 to record about 20% less long.

ADVISE: DO NOT USE!
 

HAMA highspeed Compactflash Card 2GB

FUNCTIONALITY: Functions OK, but has very high Power Consumption, causing the Vitaport 4 to record about 20% less long.

ADVISE: DO NOT USE!

We would be pleased if you would supply information about other cards that you have encountered and seem to be incompatible.