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SanDisk Extreme PRO Portable SSD Offers Blazing-Fast Speeds

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At CES 2019, SanDisk introduced a new Extreme PRO Portable SSD with a significant kick to its transfer speeds. The prior Extreme (no “pro” attached) models have been popular external drives among the photography crowd thanks to the relative affordability (particularly when on sale) and the speeds we get out of the SSD drive.

While the prior Extreme models yielded up to 550MB/s transfer speeds, the new generation of Extreme PRO drives pushes the data transfer rates up to 1GB/s and take full advantage of the USB 3.1 Gen 2 interface speed. SanDisk achieves these speeds thanks to the use of NVMe drives instead of an M.2 SATA SSD in the existing Extreme.

The new Extreme PRO Portable SSD drives come in the same 500GB, 1TB and 2TB capacity and will retails for $199, $349 and $599, respectively. The new drives will ship in Q2 this year. You can find out more about the new models on SanDisk’s website.

Kodak’s Scanning Solutions for Film Negatives and Slides at CES 2019

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Kodak Booth at CES 2019

Kodak Booth at CES 2019

As digital imaging continues to mature as a market, we’re still sorting out the back and forth of analog media. Portable printing is becoming a big deal and several companies, including Kodak, are offering some impressive ZINK printers, which I’ll touch on in a different post.

Kodak also has a few solutions for scanning your images to digital files, some of which have been on the market for longer than others. [Read more…]

Long Live Disc Media: The Case for a Digital Media Platform Standard

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I want to stop using CDs and DVDs but the lack of a standardized digital media platform is keeping disc-based content delivery around. While the 40-and-under crowd could probably live without discs, we have two generations of people ahead of us that just won’t get there. Of course, that means we’ll probably be burning discs for the next 15-20 years and keeping a should-be-legacy format alive. [Read more…]