Compactflash

CompactFlash 5.0: Speed, Speed And 144 Petabytes Of Storage

10:44AM February 23, 2010 | Matt Buchanan

There’s something I love about CompactFlash cards – speed and toughness – versus SD. The CompactFlash 5.0 spec takes them to a new level: 144 petabytes of possible storage, and exponentially faster transfer speeds (from 128KB per transfer unit to 32MB). More »

SanDisk ExtremePro Cards Are Extremely Fast, Extremely Expensive

11:00PM September 14, 2009 | Matt Buchanan

The best $US50 I’ve spent in a month was on a roomier CompactFlash card for video-taking DSLRs, but it looks like I should’ve waited: SanDisk’s new ExtremePro line push 90MB/second read/write speeds and comes in 16, 32 and 64GB sizes. More »

Photofast CR-7200 CompactFlash Adapter Runs Four MicroSDs In RAID

11:00AM June 26, 2009 | Johnny Tzeng

The new CompactFlash adaptor from Photofast can hold four 16GB microSD cards running in RAID. This makes the slower microSD format as fast as CompactFlash by striping data across all four microSD cards at once. More »