Digital Home Thoughts: SanDisk Releases Extreme IV Cards and Extreme FireWire Card Reader

"SanDisk Corporation today introduced the new SanDisk Extreme® IV line of CompactFlash digital film cards for professional photographers. The line is targeted at photographers who require the highest possible performance and the largest capacities for their medium format and high-end digital single lens reflex (SLR) cameras. The SanDisk Extreme IV cards are available in capacities of up to 8-gigabytes (GB)* and deliver minimum read and write speeds of 40 megabytes per second (MB/sec.)** making these the fastest flash memory cards in the world. This exceptionally fast card speed is critical when shooting large numbers of high-resolution images. SanDisk also introduced the new SanDisk Extreme FireWire reader that can transfer images from the SanDisk Extreme IV cards to a computer at up to 40MB/sec. for significantly improved workflow efficiency. These new products were announced at a press conference held today at the NASDAQ Market Site in New York City."



8 GB of space and 40 MB/s minimum speed read/write? That's certainly drool-worthy. Prior to getting my Kingston 4GB card, I was very pleased with the performance of my 1 GB Sandisk Extreme card, so these cards certainly would make killer additions to my D200 rig. :D The FireWire card reader is also an interesting move - I haven't seen any new FireWire products released in quite some time.