arbitrage wrote:
For those in Canada I read about the Transcend CFe cards over on a DPR thread. They are listed on Amazon Canada at $260 CAD for 256GB which is almost 1/2 the price of other 256GB cards. On the US site they are $299 USD. However neither country has them in stock and I don't know if they have ever been available yet as I'd read nothing about them. Write speed is listed as 1300MB/s on the card. Oddly they have a 512GB card that lists only 1000MB/s. The 512GB card is listed at $400 CAD which is also a steal.
Anyways it seems like a pricing error in Canada based on the USD price being slightly higher but if you want to take a gamble you could place an order and wait it out to see if they ever come in stock and if they do if they honour the CAD$ price.
Update: a week or so ago Amazon cancelled my order for the 256GB card at the "deal of the year" price. But then a couple days ago Amazon re-listed it at the same $260 CAD price. So I've ordered again and waiting to see if they ever stock it and if they do if they honor that price.
Update2: The 512GB came In Stock at Amazon.ca at $392 CAD (the card lists at $429 USD). That is some bizarre pricing scheme based on the forex. Other 512GB cards are between $7-800 CAD. I ordered one because the 256GB card I had on order had no ETA. The 512GB is supposed to arrive next week. Then yesterday Amazon updated the 256GB card saying it would deliver in the last week of Sept or first week of Oct. So I guess they got some info on supply of those cards. So far that price has stayed down at the $260 mark.
I'll probably end up with both, test them and return one of them or sell one. The listed speeds is less on the 512GB card which is unlike any other manufacturer. Usually the larger capacity cards are the fastest. We shall see how they test in camera. I will try to match some of Tiggy's tests even though I don't have a nice Blue-wing Teal to photograph
arbitrage wrote:
For those in Canada I read about the Transcend CFe cards over on a DPR thread. They are listed on Amazon Canada at $260 CAD for 256GB which is almost 1/2 the price of other 256GB cards. On the US site they are $299 USD. However neither country has them in stock and I don't know if they have ever been available yet as I'd read nothing about them. Write speed is listed as 1300MB/s on the card. Oddly they have a 512GB card that lists only 1000MB/s. The 512GB card is listed at $400 CAD which is also a steal.
Anyways it seems like a pricing error in Canada based on the USD price being slightly higher but if you want to take a gamble you could place an order and wait it out to see if they ever come in stock and if they do if they honour the CAD$ price.
Update: a week or so ago Amazon cancelled my order for the 256GB card at the "deal of the year" price. But then a couple days ago Amazon re-listed it at the same $260 CAD price. So I've ordered again and waiting to see if they ever stock it and if they do if they honor that price.
Sep 09, 2020 at 02:44 PM
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