Most card readers boast compatibility with almost every memory card format on the planet, but odds are you only ever use a couple of them at most. So Lexar has created a modular alternative it’s calling the Professional Workflow HR1, with four bays that can be customized with your choice of compact flash, SD, or XQD card readers.
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Not sure if this maybe the killer we were all waiting for but this new CF Duo from Wise could definitively become your future best buddy whenever you are shooting something that you can’t afford to loose! Indeed this nice little UDMA CF Card, available in 32 or 64GB comes with an handy hardware Mirroring features (RAID1) that will instantly duplicate all your pictures to another partition and protect your shoots just in case. Unlike the average CFs, these CF Duo are in fact a pair of 16GB or 32GB Cards mounted in a single unit that give you the flexibility to be used in RAID0 or RAID1. Both cards will be available next month (July) in Japan at a price yet announced.
Wise CF Duo Speed
RAID0 : Read 60MB/sec, Write 50MB/sec
RAID1 : Read 30MB/sec, Write 25MB/sec
Are you worried your compact flash card won’t be able to keep up with the demands of the upcoming 4K revolution? Toshiba’s got your back with its new Exceria Pro series CF cards that boast read and write speeds of 160MB/s and 150MB/s respectively, making them the world’s fastest—for the time being. More »
Toshiba will launch its Exceria Pro series of CompactFlash cards into the Japanese market tomorrow with 160MB/s read speeds and 150MB/s write speeds. The company claims the 32GB and 64GB models are the fastest CF cards you can get now, thanks to the UDMA7 protocol combined with its own NAND flash memory and custom firmware. As such, it’s certified them to the “video performance guarantee profile 2” (VPG-65) standard, meaning they’re guaranteed to sustain 65MB/s, which Toshiba says will support many CF-equipped 4K cameras on the market. Obviously, HD and RAW still shooters using pro DSLR models like Canon’s 5D Mark III and the Nikon D800 won’t have to sweat the frames-per-second, either. There’s no word on US availability or pricing, but we should know more when they hit Japanese shops on April 27th.
Toshiba announced last week that it will launch a new line of high performance CompactFlash memory cards, the EXCERIA PRO series, expressly targeting the digital single lens reflex camera market. The initial line-up of 16GB, 32GB, 64GB cards will come to market in spring of 2013 and offer the world’s highest level3 read and write speeds. EXCERIA PRO will position Toshiba to meet the demands of the high-end DSLR market, including high resolution image capture, sustained continuous …
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