09-02-2006, 11:00 AM
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Pretec Announces an 8GB SDHC Card
"Pretec, the world record keeper of highest capacity flash memory cards of CF card (12GB, March 2004), USB Flash Drive (8GB, January 2005), SD card (4GB, July 2005) and MMC (4GB, September 2005), has now released 8GB SD card, the highest capacity SD card in the world. Pretec 8GB SD card is fully compliant with SD 2.0 (SDHC) specification with access speed up to 20MB/sec. The maximum capacity of SD card is 2GB under SD 1.1 of Secure Digital Alliance (SDA) specification; however, by using file format of FAT32, many SD 1.1 host devices can use 4GB SD card which Pretec pioneered since 2005. SD 1.0/1.1 uses traditional "Byte Addressing" scheme which limits the maximum capacity to 4GB while SD 2.0 adopts "Sector Addressing" scheme which is the same with the technique applied by Mu-Card Alliance in 2004 to reach the maximum capacity of 2TB (2048GB)."
Under the SDHC specification, this card offers a comfortably-sized 8GB of storage. None of our Pocket PCs support this specification, yet Pretec goes on to state that the card is backward compatible with SD 1.1 devices, and that up to 4GB can be used in such cases. If true, this wouldn't make a bad investment. Buy one now (assuming the price is right), use it with your Pocket PC, and use it with any future device that supports SDHC. Kill two birds with the one stone.
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09-02-2006, 02:40 PM
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Theorist
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Re: Pretec Announces an 8GB SDHC Card
I'm drooling very badly. All the mp3s and movies I could fit...
But I'm afraid, the cost wasn't mentioned....
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09-02-2006, 03:00 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Jul 2002
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That's cool...but a good investment? Why in the world would it be a good investment to spend a premium price to buy an 8GB card that you can only access half of it on your current pda?
Are you afraid of it being cheaper in a year?  Not to mention microSD & miniSD are becoming more popular
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09-02-2006, 03:09 PM
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Intellectual
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Is it Practical?
(On my device whiile ducking my boss.)
I think this item is absolutely astounding, however, is it practical? My reason with asking this question is because there almost all of the new devices are adopting mini-SD or even worse micro-SD cards. So is it worth the investment given that factor?
Personally, I am clenching on to my PPC 6600 due to reasons like this and I refuse to switch to its bulkier predecessor the PPC 6600.
What do you guys think?
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09-02-2006, 03:26 PM
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Theorist
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oops. i didnt notice the 4gb limit, likely dt wishful thinking.
i cant see then how this would be a good investments...does anything have a faster depreciation?
i wonder if my 32 mb cf card is now worth a fortune.
what about the promised samsung 8gb sd? same story?
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09-02-2006, 04:01 PM
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Pontificator
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Anybody know if partitioning this into 2 x 4GB chunks would make it usable? It used to be with older devices that a 2GB limit applied (PPC2000 I think, or CE2.11 maybe), so the workaround was partitions. My Accurite 6GB external hard drive (now retired in favour of a 40GB USB Comstar) came stock in 3 partitions
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09-02-2006, 04:19 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Even if the 8Go Sd card is not selled at a premium, investing in more capacity than you need today is a bad idea. Price drops so quickly.
4Go SD card are about 70� nowadays, in september 2005 it was more than 250�.
Buying the 8Go SD only make sense if you need all the capacity today, and can affort a probably higher price per Go. And if its works in your device.
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09-02-2006, 07:31 PM
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Thinker
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Re: Pretec Announces an 8GB SDHC Card
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Originally Posted by Darius Wey
...If true, this wouldn't make a bad investment. Buy one now (assuming the price is right), use it with your Pocket PC, and use it with any future device that supports SDHC. Kill two birds with the one stone.
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Sorry, but unless the price was almost the same as a 4GB card, this would be a terrible investment. Memory prices drop so fast that by the time that "future" device appears, you would most likely be able to buy a 16GB card for the same price or less.
Besides, any 4GB card you buy now would still have some value to you when the higher capacity cards are usable. Each time I buy a new SD card, I cycle my older - lower capacity cards into my digital camera and MP3 player. With the new higher capacity cards going to my Pocket PCs.
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09-03-2006, 04:14 AM
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Developer & Designer, News Editor Emeritus
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Re: Pretec Announces an 8GB SDHC Card
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Originally Posted by daS
Sorry, but unless the price was almost the same as a 4GB card, this would be a terrible investment. Memory prices drop so fast that by the time that "future" device appears, you would most likely be able to buy a 16GB card for the same price or less.
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Fair point. You would have to factor in the additional cost of the purchase of the initial 4GB card, though.
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Originally Posted by daS
Besides, any 4GB card you buy now would still have some value to you when the higher capacity cards are usable. Each time I buy a new SD card, I cycle my older - lower capacity cards into my digital camera and MP3 player. With the new higher capacity cards going to my Pocket PCs.
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Very true. That's something I actually do myself, but always forget about. 8)
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09-03-2006, 07:08 AM
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Thinker
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Re: Pretec Announces an 8GB SDHC Card
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Originally Posted by Darius Wey
Very true. That's something I actually do myself, but always forget about. 8)
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:lol:
Actually, something else I forgot to note:
A friend of mine had a high capacity (well for it's time) CF card for his digital camera. After taking a lot of photos on a trip, the card had a failure before he got home to upload the photos and he lost everything. Since then, both he and I have adopted the policy of using a few lower capacity cards for the camera rather than one large one.
The cards are tiny enough that it's not a big deal to carry a few extra. And what we call "low capacity" today are not so low. They are large enough that you don't have to worry about running out of space in the middle of a photo shot. Instead, you just put in a new card when it's convenient for you.
The final advantage to this strategy is that 512MB or 1GB cards today are dirt cheap! 8)
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