SanDisk has announced that it has doubled the capacity of its CompactFlash 5000 flash memory cards for industrial markets. The cards provide a high level of durability as well as high read and write speeds, and the extra capacity makes it a more suitable accessory for mission-critical applications including medical instruments, military applications and gaming systems.
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Price? What would a 16-gig memory card go for in the stores? What's the projected cost? 16 gigs on a tiny card is pretty impressive stuff and would pack quite a punch for consumer apps, but is there any pricing info?
And why are these only targeted for business applicatons? ("for industrial markets"). What about us "domestic market" people? Shouldn't we get to buy them too?
Press release gave no release details at all whether it was a date, price or where they'd be initially available to buy. I think they will be pretty expensive though, they are made to work in some fairly crappy... or so we're told, I'm pretty sure has done an independent side by side comparison to CompactFlash and all the others. ;-)
Press release gave no release details at all whether it was a date, price or where they'd be initially available to buy. I think they will be pretty expensive though, they are made to work in some fairly crappy... or so we're told, I'm pretty sure has done an independent side by side comparison to CompactFlash and all the others. ;-)
That's unfortunate. They sure don't appear to be crappy in terms of performance specs, ie :
- suitable accessory for mission-critical applications
- sustained read and write operations
- high data transfer rate (30 MB/second)
- on-the-fly error detection
- back block management.....error correction code
- reliability in temperature extremes (-25 ~ +85 celsius)
At 16 gigabytes, you could even use a tiny card like this (in, say, a camera) to record substancial amounts of 1080p HD video!
Quote:mission-critical applications including medical instruments, military applications and gaming systems.
I wonder when they decided a video game system was considered "mission-critical"? :P
(LOL) Well!
With all the heated debates positively raging here in the Games Forums, and the zillions of daily posts being made about the finer points of XBox and PS3, I have come to the realization that many-many-many people simply cannot live a single day without their gaming consoles! :)
Originally posted by Dela: ye... believe it or not that was listed along with everything else on press release so...
On the bus (I guess that would be 'lorry' or 'Metro' in Ireland <gg>) last week, I heard one young fellow curse under-his-breath, because he had been so wrapped-up in his portable game machine, that he had missed his stop! (LOL)
