The card arrived yesterday finally, from Germany rather than the advertised Ohio,USA location.

It does indeed do UDMA, up to UDMA/100 ("udma mode-6").
Sequential read speed is very decent, at ~35Mbytes/second.

But.. writing is DOG SLOW. I mean *REALLY* *F'IN* SLOW, at about 3.5Mbytes/second. This is easily the slowest writing CF card I have used since the 8MB card that was included with my first ever digicam.

Too slow for use in my Canon 40D (what a shame, as it could hold more than 1600 RAW files).

And unfortunately just a little too slow for my notebook. Nice and fast on the reads (much better than the existing 20MByte/sec hard disk), but just too slow writing *anything* of any size.

So it is bound for an empeg, where writes are infrequent, and where 3.5Mbyte/sec is still somewhat faster than the ethernet.

All of which brings me back to the original problem:

I want a new 1.8" drive (or decent CF) for my notebook!

Cheers