Ginormous Compact Flash Cards

AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
edited February 25, 2008 in Accessories
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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited September 11, 2006
    Wow!
    Andy wrote:
    Feed your habit
    Andy, this is freaking cool!! thumb.gif
    It's like, going for the smugmug shootout and having only one card:-) clap.gif
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  • RichardRichard Administrators, Vanilla Admin Posts: 19,962 moderator
    edited September 12, 2006
    Nikolai wrote:
    Andy, this is freaking cool!! thumb.gif
    It's like, going for the smugmug shootout and having only one card:-) clap.gif

    Pretty amazing, but I'm not going to get too excited. Every time there is a new breakthrough in memory or disk capacity, it coincides with some new application requirement that consumes the added space. In the end, you always need more memory and you never have enough disk space for long.
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  • LuckyBobLuckyBob Registered Users Posts: 273 Major grins
    edited September 12, 2006
    But c'mon! If you aren't jumping out of your shorts what are the engineers/bean counters/corporate suits going to do with themselves? mwink.gif
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  • gusgus Registered Users Posts: 16,209 Major grins
    edited September 12, 2006
    Imagine not only having a CF card of that size but the fact that it is also a portable/perm computer drive...i suspect our old whiring hard drives are looking at the sun setting.
  • LuckyBobLuckyBob Registered Users Posts: 273 Major grins
    edited September 12, 2006
    I'd bed true flash memory-based storage is still a fair way off from the mainstream; it'll eventually happen, but there's some major stumbling blocks to overcome yet. The current NAND flash memory technology has a life span of around 100K cycles before it dies, which is appreciably short. Imagine doing something like defraging your disk (or worse - self-defraging systems like Linux) or saving a 100MB+ Photoshop file every few minutes and knowing that you're shortening the life of your hard drive each time you do so...

    An article about the practicality of purely flash-based storage: http://www.overclockers.com/tips00771/
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  • cmasoncmason Registered Users Posts: 2,506 Major grins
    edited September 12, 2006
    Well, this likely means the megapixel wars can go on a bit longer. DSLRs at the 22+ MP will be no problem with a 32GB CF card.

    (better up the memory on my PC...think 8GB is enough?)
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  • digitalpinsdigitalpins Registered Users Posts: 448 Major grins
    edited September 12, 2006
    wow..... that way too big right now
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  • mr peasmr peas Registered Users Posts: 1,369 Major grins
    edited September 12, 2006
    That is really cool. But it would suck if the card would break, you'd lose soo many images! But I think its great we're still finding new ways to fit more in small spaces. Go samsung!
  • jwwjww Registered Users Posts: 449 Major grins
    edited September 12, 2006
    Andy wrote:
    Feed your habit

    Yikes... I have been pretty happy using 4g cards, as I usually dump them down to my computer every evening while shooting an event. It would be nice to have a few larger cards, but I think I am more excited at the 4g and 8g cards becoming much cheaper. mwink.gif

    thanks for the info!!

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  • ian408ian408 Administrators Posts: 21,939 moderator
    edited September 14, 2006
    I would wait a while. Until all the bugs are worked out...you never know
    with these things.
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  • SpeshulEdSpeshulEd Registered Users Posts: 341 Major grins
    edited September 14, 2006
    Don't forget people use flash memory for other things besides taking pictures. I use CF for all of my live audio taping...at 24/96khz an hour of music takes up nearly 2gbs - having a 64gb CF card would mean I could record a whole weekend festival on one card and not have to worry once about running out of room.

    The downfall - the transfer time when you're done.
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  • ballentphotoballentphoto Registered Users Posts: 312 Major grins
    edited September 14, 2006
    Although the thought is tempting, I guess I am too old school rolleyes1.gif too eggs in one basket for me. Maybe if I had a 22MP camera or that 39MP Blad I would look closer at this... but for now too much of a good thing.
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  • askme2flashuaskme2flashu Registered Users Posts: 33 Big grins
    edited September 14, 2006
    Best thing that I see from this is , prices for 2, 4, & 8 Gigs should drop. 8 Gigs for under a hondred buck would be nice.clap.gif
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  • darkdragondarkdragon Registered Users Posts: 1,051 Major grins
    edited February 22, 2008
    askme2flashu wrote:
    Best thing that I see from this is , prices for 2, 4, & 8 Gigs should drop. 8 Gigs for under a hondred buck would be nice.clap.gif



    How about 8GB for under $50 !?!

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820208340

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  • ivarivar Registered Users Posts: 8,395 Major grins
    edited February 22, 2008
    darkdragon wrote:
    How about 8GB for under $50 !?!

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820208340

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    The post you replied to was about 1.5 years old, so that explains the price difference thumb.gif
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  • darkdragondarkdragon Registered Users Posts: 1,051 Major grins
    edited February 22, 2008
    ivar wrote:
    The post you replied to was about 1.5 years old, so that explains the price difference thumb.gif

    Oh I relized that. I just thought I'd reply to it mwink.gif
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  • Art ScottArt Scott Registered Users Posts: 8,959 Major grins
    edited February 22, 2008
    darkdragon wrote:
    How about 8GB for under $50 !?!

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820208340

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    This is a great card / price ......when I bought my 2 I paid just under $80 each and that was on sale.......and I have had no probs of any kind....they have served me well....................
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  • claudermilkclaudermilk Registered Users Posts: 2,756 Major grins
    edited February 25, 2008
    Going back to Richard's post, well he was prescient. I can see a use for these monsters now if you have a 1Ds Mk III. deal.gif For the rest of us with 8-12 MP, not so much still.
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