Pretec has been busy. The flash memory company (whose site ironically relies heavily on Adobe Flash) has, among other things, built the world’s first SDXC card (the 2TB capable cards we saw at CES) and the world’s first miCARD (a teeny, tiny memory card).
But the most startling achievements are both on show at the PMA in Las Vegas — a 100GB Compact Flash card and a 666x Compact Flash card (itself a healthy 64GB in size).
The theoretical speed limit for CF cards is 133MB/sec. The new 666x card manages an astounding 100MB/sec, and Pretec rather proudly boasts that it “will likely also be the last of the high speed CF card in the CompactFlash industry”.
The press release than goes off into the realms of recursive redundancy: “ruggedized construction […] provides extensive ruggedness.”
Also announced are two large capacity cards, both running at a speedy 233x (35MB/sec). These come in 64GB and 100GB flavors, and will also likely be very expensive.
At these sizes, putting them in a camera seems rather foolish — unless you have a Hasselblad which lays down 300MB files, 100GB of photos in one place is a scary proposition even for the most carefree photographer. Still, you could always use these to build yourself a homemade SSD RAID drive.
666x Press release [Pretec via Photography Bay]
100GB Press release [Pretec]
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