06-01-2004, 02:00 AM
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Swami
Join Date: Feb 2004
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2Gb High Speed MMC Card Released
After the talk of cheaper memory, there's no word yet of a price for the following, seen at dpreview:
"At Computex Taipei today Pretec demonstrated a new 2 GB card which conforms to the new MMC 4 standard and which Pretec are calling the 'World's Fastest Flash Memory Card'. Thanks to the fact that MMC 4 allows for transfer of 4-bits of data in parallel this new card has a quoted write speed of around 18 MB/sec (120X) and a read speed of around 22.5 MB/sec (150X). If verified this card would indeed be far faster than any current flash memory card. The new card is also backwardly compatible with standard SD / MMC devices."
So, combine this with a Pretec 12Gb CF card and you should be set for storage for a while. :wink:
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06-01-2004, 02:03 AM
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Mystic
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Backwards compatible...so that means it'll work at the slower speed, right? I wonder when we'll start seeing new devices that work at the fast speeds.
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06-01-2004, 02:13 AM
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Oracle
Join Date: Dec 2003
Posts: 830
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12gb cf and 2gb sd in a tosh e805... i wonder if anyone has all 3
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06-01-2004, 02:19 AM
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Philosopher
Join Date: Feb 2007
Posts: 559
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It's that backwards compatible part that bothers me. That means that, while the superfast card is here, there aren't any devices that can take advantage of that spead yet. :roll:
But I guess that's the future. The speed will increase on one side and the other will have to catch up. Actually, that's pretty cool. 8)
Isn't there supposed to be another 2GB SD card coming out soon? But if the 1GB card is slow...what would the 2GB version be? 8O
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06-01-2004, 02:35 AM
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Philosopher
Join Date: Jul 2003
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Originally Posted by Ryan Joseph
Isn't there supposed to be another 2GB SD card coming out soon? But if the 1GB card is slow...what would the 2GB version be? 8O
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Twice as slow as the 1GB? :P
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06-01-2004, 02:53 AM
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Theorist
Join Date: Mar 2003
Posts: 270
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All the new PDA�s that will be shipping with the PXA270 support 4bit SDIO. Those speeds are 10 X what a CF card will do today. I noticed Cannon is starting to use SD cards in a lot of there new cameras. Hopefully we will start seeing less PDA�s with big bulky CF cards as SD densities grow.
Sean
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06-01-2004, 03:14 AM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Jul 2003
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This is great. Anything that will further reduce the price of current high-end memory cards is certainly welcome.
Though, I would need a 5GB SD Card to have enough MP3, DVD and work files to not really worry about memory space. Who knows... 2005?
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06-01-2004, 03:25 AM
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Editorial Contributor
Join Date: Jun 2007
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Why does everyone keep saying SD? The card clearly says MMC , the open standard, as opposed to SD the proprietary standard that robs space for an unused security feature. Just an observation.
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06-01-2004, 03:29 AM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Mar 2003
Posts: 199
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A 2 GB SD card will store only one hour of 24-bit/96 Kilosample per second high-resolution audio, but will store 3 hours at CD quality (16-bit/44.1 KS/s).
We need at least 2 hours of 24/96, so we are "chomping at the bit" waiting for the 4 GB SD cards to be announced.
For now, CF cards still have the edge (if only the discounted price of the 4 GB CF cards would drop to under $500).
Len Moskowitz
Core Sound
www.core-sound.com
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06-01-2004, 03:40 AM
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Philosopher
Join Date: Jun 2002
Posts: 498
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it is MMC card, not SD.
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