Digital Home Thoughts: Kingston Announces 16 GB SDHC Memory Card

"Kingston Technology Company, Inc., the independent world leader in memory products, today announced it is adding a 16GB Class 4 SDHC Flash memory card to give consumers greater storage flexibility and faster speed to optimize use of today's higher resolution imaging equipment. The new 16GB card is the largest capacity in Kingston's line of SDHC cards, which include 4- and 8GB SDHC Class 2/4/6 versions. "Higher resolution digital cameras and increasingly popular HD video camcorders require high capacity memory cards with faster data transfer rates (DTRs) to maximize overall performance of the recording device," said Jaja Lin, Flash memory marketing manager, Kingston®. "Our new 16GB Class 4 memory card answers the performance needs and expands Kingston's product line to provide a memory solution for every application." Even with today's high resolution recording devices, a 16GB memory card can store literally thousands of photos and hours of high definition video. For example, the new 16GB SDHC card can capture more than 7,500* images (with a 6MP camera) and more than four hours* of video (for 6Mbps HD Extended recording)."



The march toward more storage continues with Kingston releasing this 16 GB SDHC memory card. It's not just about storage space any more though - with the increasing number of HD video cameras that record to Flash storage, speed matters as well. This new line of Kingston cards is offered in three different speed classes: a class 2 card is rated for 2 MB/s, class 4 cards are rated for 4 MB/s, and class 6 cards are (wait for it) 6 MB/s. A class 4 card with 16 GB of storage will run you $231 USD MSRP, so it's not exactly cheap...but 16 GB in such a small package is sure tasty!