Seagate shipping 5 GB CF HDD

[James Fee]

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0501/05010502seagate5gbship.asp

"Seagate has today issued a press release stating that it is about to begin shipping the 5 GB CF Type II HDD which was announced in June last year. The CF card will be available in 2.5 GB and 5 GB capacities and will probably offer the best $/MB of any large CF card. However with the price of flash memory is coming down all the time and many professional photographers perferring the relatively safety of flash it's difficult to see this becoming a huge seller in the digital photography market (it will probably do better where it's already being used; in MP3 players)."



I tend to agree with that assessment. I think flash media will continue to drop in price especially since most of these HDDs will be grabbed by digital media players keeping the cost higher than flash.

[James Fee]

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0501/05010502seagate5gbship.asp

"Seagate has today issued a press release stating that it is about to begin shipping the 5 GB CF Type II HDD which was announced in June last year. The CF card will be available in 2.5 GB and 5 GB capacities and will probably offer the best $/MB of any large CF card. However with the price of flash memory is coming down all the time and many professional photographers perferring the relatively safety of flash it's difficult to see this becoming a huge seller in the digital photography market (it will probably do better where it's already being used; in MP3 players)."



I tend to agree with that assessment. I think flash media will continue to drop in price especially since most of these HDDs will be grabbed by digital media players keeping the cost higher than flash.

[Lee Yuan Sheng]

Eh, it's just shipping? I swore I saw some being sold for some time now..

I agree about these cards having a hard time finding buyers. Flash based media is getting so cheap it makes more sense to have those then hard disk based solutions in cameras.