Most of the time budget memory cards would do me. Normally I shoot quite deliberately, rarely doing the rapid fire type shooting. A few milliseconds is not a big issue for me. Speed is important that being said. When you do need it though you really need it. If you are transferring a great deal of megabytes over a memory card reader, or with an external hard disk, a minor increase in speed per picture does mount up.
If you want to see how different types and brands of compact flash card measure up, check out the comprehensive speed tests from Rob Galbraith.
All cards were secure erased prior to testing, then formatted in the camera. The 4GB and larger models were, for the 32K cluster size tests only, formatted in Windows XP. The same test scene was photographed, under the same illumination, for all tests. The identical camera settings and lens were also used for all tests.
Find your camera, or closest equivelant, then check out the memory card test results. Pretty good tests, not sure if (other than minor exceptions) if it doesn’t tell us much more than “you get what you pay for”, but it does show how sometimes only very small differences are apparent.
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