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Kingston Increases Capacity of CF Elite Pro Card to 32GB

February 10, 2009 By Eric Reagan

Kingston has stepped up the capacity for their Elite Pro series to 32GB. I’ve been using a 16GB Kingston Elite Pro CF card for a a couple of months in my Canon 5D Mark II and have to say that it works quite well. It slows down after about 9 continuous frames (the best I’ve seen so far has come from Lexar’s 300x 4GB CF Card at 15 continuous frames before it slows down). With the Kingston 16GB Elite Pro, it’s also nice to have plenty of room for the 25MB to 30MB RAW files that the 5D Mark II produces.

The Kingston 32GB Elite Pro CF card retails for $154. Check availability on Amazon.com.

More info in the following press release. [Read more…]

Pretec CFast Compact Flash Card – Transfer Rate of 160MB/s

January 11, 2009 By Eric Reagan

I think Pretec just dared Canon, Nikon or anyone else to produce some higher resolution video and faster frame rates. The new Pretec CFast series of compact flash cards quadruples the write speed of the SanDisk Extreme IV.

And, if the performance lives up to the specs, the CFast series will eat as much HD video as your Canon 5D Mark II can throw at it. Maybe we can stop referring to CF card specs as 133x, 266x and so on, since the CFast will be something like 1064x speed card.

Check out the details in the press release below. [Read more…]

Lexar Full-HD Video Memory Cards

January 6, 2009 By Eric Reagan

With the ever-growing crowd of HD video shooters out there, Lexar has stepped up to the plate with some high speed, high capacity SDHC and Memory Stick Pro Duo memory cards. Expect them to be available in March. See the press release below for more info on capacities and formats. [Read more…]

Lexar Professional 233x CF Memory Cards

September 23, 2008 By Eric Reagan

Lexar has upped the speed of its professional CF card line from 133x to 233x. The new cards offer a read/write speed of 35MB per second to accommodate higher megapixel cameras and video capture. The new CF cards are available in 2GB, 4GB and 8GB flavors.

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Pretec Releases 64GB and 100GB CF Cards

September 22, 2008 By Eric Reagan

Pretec, who previously announced a 48GB CF card to become the world leader in CF card size, just beat itself with a 100GB card. I suppose the high megapixel cameras will create a need for larger CF cards. Although, I’m not sure that my camera bag is quite ready for a 100GB CF card yet. [Read more…]

SanDisk 3-bit-per-cell (x3) Nand Flash

February 6, 2008 By Eric Reagan

Company Introduces World’s First Commercial 16-gigabit, 3-Bit-Per-Cell NAND Flash ChipSAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, February 6, 2008 – Reaching a new threshold in the development of flash memory, SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK) today announced that it expects to start mass production of the world’s first commercial three-bit-per-cell (x3) NAND flash memory in March/April 2008. The 16-gigabit (Gb) x3 NAND flash employs SanDisk’s standard 56 nanometer (nm) flash technology and provides over 20 percent more die per wafer compared to standard NAND Multi-Level Cell (MLC) memory (2-bits-per-cell) on the same technology node. x3 enables higher manufacturing efficiency and lower die cost for the same capital investment. The new x3 flash architecture has been in development for the past two years and employs SanDisk’s most advanced patented design innovations to achieve the same performance and high reliability found in SanDisk’s 2-bits-per-cell chips. [Read more…]