When it comes time to buy a memory card, many people just grab up the largest capacity card they can afford without thinking too much about the speed of the memory card. Speed is an important factor though, especially if you are shooting images with a camera that can take fast bursts.
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‘Memory Card’ Stories
SD Association unveils dual-row pin memory card design for SDHC and SDXC cards
Lexar 24-in-1 USB memory card reader plays nice with iPad [Video]
Lexar have outed their latest multi-format memory card reader, compatible with 24 different types of flash storage, and they're particularly excited by how easy it is to hook up to an iPad's USB/Dock Connector adapter and import photos straight onto the Apple tablet. In fact, Lexar's director of marketing, Jeff Cable, was so excited he drove straight down to the beach to take photos of a pretty lady with a surfboard, just so he could demonstrate the functionality on video.
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Toshiba plan standardized WiFi SDHC cards for digicams
Toshiba are looking to bring the wireless camera storage fight to Eye-Fi's door, with the announcement that they're setting up the "Standard Promotion Forum for Memory Cards Embedding Wireless LAN". A collaboration with Trek 2000, the SPFMCEWL group would promote a standardized WiFi-enabled SDHC card that would communicate with the camera with cross-manufacturer consistency, wirelessly transferring its 8GB of storage to remote servers or directly to other cameras.
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Pretec unveils P240 USB 3.0 Multi Card Reader, world’s first USB 3.0 card reader
USB 3.0 ports on new computers are becoming more and more common today. As the ports are more common, new devices to take advantage of the ports are becoming more common too. Pretec has unveiled the world's first USB 3.0 memory card reader at Computex 2010.
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Silicon Power unveils new SDHC card for HD video recording
Silicon Power has officially unveiled its new memory card for recording HD video on cameras and camcorders. The company chose to strap the memory card with a strange name of Full HD Video Card making sound like computer hardware rather than the memory card that it is.
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Eye-Fi Connect X2 and Explore X2 get WiFi-n
Eye-Fi's Pro X2 WiFi-enabled memory card has only been shipping for little over a week but the company has already outed some siblings for it. The Eye-Fi Connect X2 and Eye-Fi Explore X2 have 4GB and 8GB of storage respectively, and each offer WiFi 802.11n connectivity and Class 6 performance.
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SanDisk 32GB microSDHC arrives
SanDisk have announced the first 32GB microSDHC card on the market, and if you've been weeping over your lack of cellphone storage then as long as you can muster up $199.99 (or £144.99 in the UK) you'll be able to buy copious storage for your music and video. The SanDisk 32GB microSDHC will, of course, require a device which supports the microSDHC standard; best to check your user guide before you put down your cash.
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Eye-Fi Pro X2 shipping today
How long does it take to get an 8GB memory card to the market? If you're Eye-Fi, and the card is the WiFi 802.11n-toting Eye-Fi Pro X2, then it's a couple of months; the company has announced that its latest wireless-enabled memory card is shipping from today, promising faster transfer speeds and improved overall performance.
According to the Eye-Fi blog, that's all down to their new X2 engine, which bundles together a 200 MHz ARM926 processor with an MMU, dedicated flash and radio interface engines, and encryption acceleration hardware. Combined, they're good for improved WiFi-triangulation geotagging accuracy and "Endless Memory", Eye-Fi's new system whereby images and video are automatically deleted from the X2 once the card has verified that they've been correctly uploaded to the server.
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Kingston microSD fakes prompt “ghost shift” investigation
Who would've thought memory cards could be so full of intrigue. Andrew "bunnie" Huang - whose name you might remember from inside the chumby One - was prompted to investigate an apparent bad batch of Kingston microSD cards when the touchscreen widget device (which stores its OS on a microSD) started acting up. He went on to discover that his dodgy batch was in fact the tip of a fake card iceberg, which seems to suggest Kingston's suppliers have been producing so-called "ghost shift" fakes during factory downtime, with Kingston's brand but serious quality shortcomings.
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CompactFlash Association announces CF5.0 specifications now available
Many DSLR cameras and some camcorders on the market today store images and video to CompactFlash or CF cards. The higher-end cameras tend to use CF cards as do many pro-level camcorders. The big benefit of CF cards over SD cards for the most part has been storage capacity. The CompactFlash Association has announced that the new CF5.0 specs are now available.
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SanDisk 64GB Ultra SDXC card on sale for $350
Looking for a huge quantity of speedy flash memory for your DSLR or HD camcorder? SanDisk have pushed their 64GB Ultra SDXC memory card out the door, and the Class 4 card certainly promises enough. Up to 15MB/sec read speeds are supported, with data kept in exFAT file structure; one card is enough for over eight hours of HD video at 9Mbps quality.
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Kingston ships 32GB Class 10 SDHC card
There are so many devices on the market today that use SD cards for storage that the format is one of the most common around. You will find SD cards in use in cameras, netbooks, camcorders, and other gadgets. The SDHC format is growing in capacity and performance all the time and Kingston has announced that it is shipping a couple new SDHC cards.
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