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SanDisk has announced a new 64GB Extreme Pro SDXC UHS-I card to complement the existing line of 8GB to 32GB UHS-I cards announced earlier this year. With a max write speed of 90MB/s and 95MB/s read speed, the new 64GB UHS-I card blows away the Extreme Pro UHS-I cards that were announced in January, which clocked in at 45MB/s. [Read more…]
Lexar’s Professional 133x SDXC cards are now shipping in the jumbo sizes of 64GB and 128GB. These new SDXC cards carry retail prices of $199 and $329, respectively. (Although, the street prices are substantially less. See below.)
Find them at the following links:
Lexar 64GB SDXC Card: B&H Photo | Adorama
Lexar 128GB SDXC Card: Adorama
This article was sparked by a recent conversation I had with some folks at SanDisk. We were talking about the numerous types and ratings of SD cards and how there are lots of questions from users about the acronyms, labels and speed ratings associated with SD cards.
In this article, we’re going to look at the different types of SD cards, along their speed class designation, and why these are important for you and your camera. By the end of this article, you should have a better understanding of what works in your camera and why. Moreover, you should be able to choose the right SD card for your camera and the way you want to use it.
Lexar has announced new Lexar Professional 133x SDXC cards in 128GB and 64GB flavors. The new cards offer a transfer speed of 20MB per second. The new 64GB and 128GB cards will be available in the first quarter of this year at initial retail prices of $399.99 and $699.99, respectively.
More details in the press release below. [Read more…]
Kingston has just launched a 64GB Class 10 SDXC card that touts a 60MB/s read speed and a 35MB/s write speed. The new card carries a rather steep retail price tag of $499.
I don’t know about you, but I’ll stick with using two 32GB cards until the price comes down a bit.
You can read up on all the specs of the new SDXC card in the press release below. [Read more…]
The Pretec P240 USB 3.0 card reader, which is compatible with SDXC, CF and other memory card formats, is looking to be available around August 2010. USB 3.0 (or SuperSpeed USB) is backwards compatible with USB 2.0 devices, but offers 10x improvement in speed with a 5Gbps signaling rate when tied to USB 3.0 connections on both ends.
Pretec’s new 64GB SDXC card is a Class 16 card is also set to start trickling out soon. These products and more from Pretec will be featured at Computex Taipei, which starts today.
More details in the press release below. [Read more…]
SanDisk has announced its new Ultra 64GB SDXC card. The Ultra-series card has a write speed of 9Mbps and a read speed of 15MB/s, which makes it properly suited for SDXC compatible video cameras.
The SanDisk Ultra 64GB SDXC card carries an initial retail price of $349.99 and should be available immediately. Check availability on Amazon.com.
More details in the press release below. [Read more…]
The SDXC card specification has been announced for more than a year now. However, it’s only now that we are starting to see products supporting this new specification. There are a few important things to note about SDXC cards and how they fit into photographers’ gear bags.
The SDXC specification comes from the SD Association, which is an industry standards organization founded by Panasonic, SanDisk and Toshiba in 2000. If a manufacturer is going to use SD technology in product, they have to license the right to use that technology from the SD Association. Most, if not all, of the major camera manufacturers are members of the SD Association and license the patents and other intellectual property necessary for developing SD-compatible cameras and memory cards.
There are a number of different specifications that the SD Association has developed over the past decade, including SD, miniSD, microSD, SDHC, miniSDHC, microSDHC and SDXC, among others. Each specification has its own limitations or capabilities. For instance, the original SD specification offered storage only up to 2GB. When SDHC came along, it took the capacity up to 32GB. The latest specification, SDXC, offers storage capacities up to 2TB. [Read more…]
Panasonic introduced new SDXC cards in 64GB and 48GB capacities at CES 2010.
SDXC cards are a new standard from the SD Association that allows for capacities ranging from 64GB to 2TB. SDXC cards also have a speed advantage over the SDHC format. The SDXC format has a theoretical speed of 104MB/s to potentially 300MB/s in the future.
It is important to note that SDXC cards are not compatible with camera models that are not specifically designed with the SDXC format in mind.
The Panasonic 64GB SDXC card carries an initial retail price of $599.95, while the 48GB SDXC card has an initial retail price of $449.95.
More details in the press release below. [Read more…]