I recently bought a SanDisk Compact Flash 512 MB at BestBuy for $5 AR. SanDisk is my favorite brand, but this one seems to be of an earlier, slower generation. The speed is terrible. It is not marked as to speed. The SD cards may be the same. Probably the mini and even micro SD cards with adapters are the faster ones.

These things (shall we call them 1st generation SD cards?) are obviously being unloaded to make room for the newer models. Even in Germany, a popular “big box” electronics retailer (Media Markt) is selling name-brand 1 GB SD cards for 27 Euros (that’s about $33.75 at current exchange rates) — and that’s the walk-out price, no rebates necessary.