Wednesday, March 1, 2006
Sandisk Unveils 8 GB Ultra III CompactFlash Card
Posted by Jason Dunn in "NEWS" @ 03:55 PM
"SanDisk® Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK) today announced the addition of new card capacities to its Extreme III line of flash cards for professional digital cameras that are double the highest capacity points currently available. The new cards include the 8-gigabyte (GB)1 CompactFlash®, 2GB SD™ and 2GB Memory Stick PRO Duo™ digital film cards. The announcement was made at the Photo Marketing Association trade show where SanDisk is demonstrating products in booth #2741. SanDisk Extreme III CompactFlash and SD cards have minimum write and read speeds of 20 megabytes per second (MB/sec.) Memory Stick PRO Duo cards have minimum write and read speeds of 18 MB/sec. 2 The SanDisk Extreme III cards, which range in capacity between 1- and 8GB are among the world’s fastest working cards in many of today’s leading digital single lens reflex (SLR) cameras."
8 GB? Man, it seems like I was just being wowed over 4 GB and already we have a high-speed card that's double the capacity. It's funny, my 4GB Kingston card is so big I have yet to run out of space on it, even after days of shooting. I won't say that there's such thing as too much space, because when I start shooting more in RAW I'll likely chew up my 4GB card pretty quickly, but there's certainly an inflection point where for the average consumer, they have enough storage to last them months and months of shooting. In fact, the more storage a user gets, often the less frequently they dump the card to their PC. That, in turn, increases the risk of them losing their pictures if they only have them in one location (versus a PC that's being backed up).
8 GB? Man, it seems like I was just being wowed over 4 GB and already we have a high-speed card that's double the capacity. It's funny, my 4GB Kingston card is so big I have yet to run out of space on it, even after days of shooting. I won't say that there's such thing as too much space, because when I start shooting more in RAW I'll likely chew up my 4GB card pretty quickly, but there's certainly an inflection point where for the average consumer, they have enough storage to last them months and months of shooting. In fact, the more storage a user gets, often the less frequently they dump the card to their PC. That, in turn, increases the risk of them losing their pictures if they only have them in one location (versus a PC that's being backed up).
