Jun 02

SanDisk designs “netbook-specific” SDHC card, grossly overcharges for it

Posted in: netbook, sd, storage, Today's Chili

SanDisk, the company famous for making device-specific SD cards that are actually just regular SD cards with stupidly high prices tags, is back again — and this time, things are just too offensive to laugh off. Designed to provide “extra storage” to netbooks with a multicard reader, these Netbook SDHC cards are priced at $39.99 for 8GB and $79.99 for 16GB. Isn’t this kind of stuff criminal in some countries?

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SanDisk designs “netbook-specific” SDHC card, grossly overcharges for it originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 02 Jun 2009 10:07:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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May 21

Panasonic’s Class 10 SDHC cards make the wait for SDXC easier

Posted in: europe, flash, Panasonic, sd, Today's Chili

A full 15 months after Panasonic dropped jaws with its 32GB Class 6 SDHC card, the company is hitting us up with another world’s first. Announced today over in Europe, the outfit has revealed a new line of SDHC memory cards that boast a Class 10 speed rating. Said spec was recently given the green light as part of the SD Card Specification v3.0, and as you could likely surmise, the increase in transfer rates should enable the cards to better handle all that HD video your DSLR seems to be capturing these days. Still, the boost is relatively minimal (particularly compared to the forthcoming SDXC format), with Class 10 promising maximum speeds of 22MB/sec and Class 6 cards already offering top-end rates of 20MB/sec. Mum’s the word on price, but Panny expects these to ship next month in the UK before heading to other markets sometime later.

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Panasonic’s Class 10 SDHC cards make the wait for SDXC easier originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 21 May 2009 07:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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May 09

Dexim MHub mixes up an iPod dock with a USB hub

Posted in: ipod, ipod dock, IpodDock, sd, Today's Chili

We’re actually sort of surprised that we haven’t seen many more iPod dock / USB hub / card reader hybrids, but the Dexim MHub here is the only one we can recall seeing apart from the Griffin Simplifi. At a steep $70, it’s certainly not the cheapest way to add three USB ports and an SD card reader, but it certainly does look nice. Should be on sale now.

[Via Gear Diary]

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Dexim MHub mixes up an iPod dock with a USB hub originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 09 May 2009 16:40:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apr 28

LaCie DataShare recycles your bits, will never say goodbye or hurt you

Posted in: adapter, flash drive, FlashDrive, sd, Today's Chili, usb drive, UsbDrive

As gadget nerds and Type-A early adopters, you no doubt have a few microSD and SD / SDHC cards laying around that Cheeto-farm you call an office. LaCie’s $10 DataShare USB card readers let you recycle those cards into make-shift USB drives. Not bad for a ginger. Watch the uncomfortably arousing video after the break — go ahead it’s safe, LaCie wants you to.

[Via Pocket-Lint]

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Apr 27

Unitek’s 3.5-inch SATA HDD bay / MicroSD card reader is more fun than it looks

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Aside from his stunning portrayal as Col. Kurtz (“I swallowed a bug”), Brando is our go-to guy for drive bays and memory card readers. If you’re not holding out for a dock that plays DivX movies (or tells the temperature in your cube) this device should be right up your proverbial alley. The Unitek 3.5-inch USB Multi-Functional Bay sports a 2.5-inch SATA HDD enclosure, SD(HC) and MicroSD(HC) card readers, and a four pin power port — ‘cos you can’t have too many four pin power ports. Since this is Brando, we were hoping to see something with a little more kitsch appeal, but we suppose that we’ll just have to hold out for something from the Happy-Kid line. If a sane and sober-looking approach to portable storage is what you’re after, be sure to size this guy up in the gallery below.

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Unitek’s 3.5-inch SATA HDD bay / MicroSD card reader is more fun than it looks originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:42:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apr 09

Eye-Fi’s 4GB WiFi SDHC cards start to ship out

Posted in: now shipping, NowShipping, on sale, OnSale, sd, ship, shipping, ships, Today's Chili, Wireless

Nah, Eye-Fi’s latest Secure Digital cards still aren’t nearly as capacious (nor as cheap) as other alternatives on the market, but good luck getting that free-after-rebate 8GB SDHC card from IAWANNA Corp. to upload images via a wireless hotspot. We pinged the company today to see if the company’s 4GB Explore Video and Share Video SDHC models were shipping out, and we were informed that orders placed over the web were indeed leaving the docks. If you’re not kosher with handing $99.99 or $79.99 (respectively) over through the intertubes, both devices will splash down in stores starting on April 19th.

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Eye-Fi’s 4GB WiFi SDHC cards start to ship out originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 09 Apr 2009 07:26:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apr 02

Panasonic adds native iPod dock to D-Docks, drinks the Kool-Aid

Posted in: ipod, ipod dock, IpodDock, Japan, Panasonic, sd, Today's Chili

Sony gave up on ATRAC (outside of Japan anyway) and to being an iPod accessory shill long, long ago. But Panasonic, through its own inertia or arrogance has persevered with its D-SNAP and D-DOCK rigs long after its market share was doomed. After all, there’s no need for Panasonic to continue pushing the SD card, they’ve won. Still, it does a Japanese heart good to know that it can now coax its fleshy keeper into buying a D-Dock with a native iPod dock connector and sliding panel that reveals a preference for 90’s- or noughts-era music media. SD and SDHC card too, of course, this is Panasonic.

[Via Akihabara News]

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Mar 29

Dreamcast SD adapter could make for homebrew magic

Posted in: console, gaming, hack, homebrew, Retro, sd, Today's Chili

9.9.99 will always hold a special place in our hearts, and so long as hackers are making the most of Sega’s last great console, we’ll continue to pay attention. Today, we’re doing our best to wrap our minds around the Dreamcast SD Adapter, which could be used to easily bring SD-based homebrew apps and emulators over to the console. It’s still a touch unclear what exactly the device would be used to deliver, but needless to say the potential is mind-boggling. Right now, the creators are feeling out the market to see just how many Dreamcast loyalists would be willing to hand over €20 ($26), so if you think you’re willing to pony up, tap that read link and let ’em know.

[Thanks, Craig]

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Mar 25

Wii to Support SDHC, Not a Hard Drive

Posted in: Games, gaming, nintendo, sd, Today's Chili, top, video, wii

During Nintendo president Satoru Iwata’s GDC keynote today, the company revealed that the Wii will finally get SDHC support (that means compatibility with bigger SD cards) through an update that’s available now.

With the new Wii Menu 4.0 update, you can download content directly from the Wii Shop Channel to your SD/SDHC, and the card will show on the Wii’s main menu. You can then open the card to see your content in Channel format (up to 240 SD Channels are supported).

Given that the SDHC format reaching 32GB (12GB more than the hard drive in the original Xbox 360), supporting the open standard sounds like a much better solution than a honking standalone box anyway—at least to me. Other thoughts? [Kotaku Liveblog Here]

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Mar 06

PRETEC pointlessly announces world’s first SDXC card without a ship date

Posted in: sd, Today's Chili

Here it is, the world’s first SDXC card… announcement. Unfortunately, PRETEC’s take on the new SD eXtended Capacity storage format falls well short of the 2TB theoretical maximum at 32GB (a 64GB card is promised for later in the year), as does the card’s 50MBps transfer rate when 300MBps data rates are possible. Still, a first’s a first, at least it could be if this is the first SDXC card to go retail — PRETEC doesn’t list a price or a ship date. Let’s just hope that devices supporting the SDXC standard appear at about the same time these SDXC cards do ship, eh?

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PRETEC pointlessly announces world’s first SDXC card without a ship date originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 06 Mar 2009 04:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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