Jason Dunn
09-27-2006, 11:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.sandisk.com/Corporate/PressRoom/PressReleases/PressRelease.aspx?ID=3551' target='_blank'>http://www.sandisk.com/Corporate/PressRoom/PressReleases/PressRelease.aspx?ID=3551</a><br /><br /></div><i>"SanDisk® Corporation today introduced the 12- and 16-gigabyte (GB) SanDisk Extreme® III CompactFlash® cards to its award-winning Extreme III performance line, making these the highest capacity cards in the world. The new high-performance, large-capacity cards are ideal for professional photographers who shoot RAW or high-resolution JPG files and need the performance, reliability and capacity to capture these large files. The new SanDisk Extreme III CompactFlash cards can also be used with the Grass Valley™ Infinity Series Digital Media Camcorder, the first camcorder introduced in the broadcast industry that uses non-proprietary, removable, solid-state flash memory cards as recording and playback media. The new cards will have minimum write and read speeds of 20 megabytes per second (MB/sec.) and will ship to photo retailers by the end of the year."</i><br /><br /><img src="http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/images/extremetree.jpg" /><br /><br />The 16 GB will sell for $1,049.99 USD and the 12 GB cards will cost for $779.99 USD. That's a while lot of cheddar, but that's also a whole lot of storage. For some professionals, the cost might be worth it, but I think we're rapidly approaching the point where most people just don't need that much storage in their cameras. I think we'll see the Flash technology leveraged in other ways though, specifically in audio and video players, where more storage is always better. I think we'll see some crazy storage capacities from Flash-based devices in 2007!