SanDisk ExtremePro CompactFlash Cards Are Extremely Fast and Extremely Expensive

The best $50 I've spent in a month was on a roomier CompactFlash card for video-taking DSLRs, but it looks like I should've waited: SanDisk's new ExtremePro line push 90MB/second read/write speeds and comes in 16, 32 and 64GB sizes. More »

Photofast CR-7200 CompactFlash Adapter Runs Four microSDs In RAID

The new CompactFlash adapter from Photofast can hold four 16GB microSD cards running in RAID. This makes the slower microSD format as fast as CompactFlash by striping data across all four microSD cards at once. More »

Dealzmodo: Five 2GB SanDisk CompactFlash Cards for $50

Do you have a dSLR? Or better still, do you have five? Right now you can get five SanDisk Extreme III CompactFlash cards (2GB apiece) for $50. More »

Pretec's Stumps Up 64GB Compact Flash Card, and 100GB: World's Largest

100GB CF cards.... holy moly that's huge. Pretec's saying it's the world's largest capacity CF, and I'm not going to argue. It's a 233x speed card, capable of access rates at 35MB/s and it, along with its smaller 64GB sibling, is being shown at Photokina this week. Not satisfied with that though, Pretec's also extending its range of ultra-fast cards (apparently the world's fastest) with 333x speed and 50MB/s data rates in 32GB and 50GB capacities. The 333x 32GB and 233x 64GB are due to ship now, for $630 and $400, and the 233x 100GB and 333x 50GB by the end of the year. But Pretec's being shy about pricing those, or indeed even showing a product pic, but it notes the metal housings make these cards rugged. Press release below. More »

A-DATA Turbo Series CF 350X Is the World's Fastest Compact Flash Card

A-DATA's Turbo Series CF card is 350X, which gets you a 52MB/sec read and 47MB/sec write, and comes in 8 and 16GB sizes. It's the fastest Compact Flash card in the world, which is made out of Single-Level-Cell (SLC) flash memory, and has dual-channel support. More »

Microdia to Release ("FIRST!") 64GB CompactFlash Card

While several companies are working on a 64GB CompactFlash card, Microdia will be the first to actually bring the technology to store shelves (in Australia) this month. Dubbed the Microdia 64GB XTRA ELITE CF, the card features super fast 45MB/second read and write speeds and promises to hold somewhere around 19,000 high resolution JPEGs from a 20MP camera. No word on price yet. Read on for the full press release. More »

Century DIY SSD Now Goes Up to 2TB (in Theory)

While both Intel and Samsung are promising big drops in SSD prices by the year's end for now they still cost plenty. Unless you want to take the DIY route, and use this nifty gizmo from Century which uses compact flash cards for storage. The new version now accepts CF 3x cards and can create drives between 2GB and a crazy (and impossible, for now) 2TB in size. So you could buy a pair of 32GB CF cards for around $270, add in $192.57 for the DIY drive and you'd have a 64GB SATA SSD for about $460— less than half the cost of the 64GB MacBook Air's drive. Not bad, eh? Available from May 1st. [GeekStuff4U via Akihabaranews]

Dealzmodo: Free 4 GB Kingston Elite Pro Compact Flash Card

Adorama's got a 4GB Kingston Elite Pro CF card for $40, but with the $40 rebate, the total price is $0. Rebate deals sorta suck, but only if you're forgetful, and we're talking about free here. There's only a day left, so hurry! [Adorama via Photography Bay]

Delkin ImageRouters Can Dump 8 CF Cards At Once

Delkin's ImageRouter is for photogs who are in need of some serious dumpage, and fast. The basic unit lets you unload four Compact Flash cards simultaneously. The thing takes up about as much room as the Xbox 360's power brick, though fortunately it doesn't weigh a metric ton. If you want to get stupid ridiculous, you can daisy-chain two blocks together onto the powered USB port to handle a total of eight CF cards. Unfortunately the software doesn't work for Macs yet, so if you plugged it into one you'd just see four separate drives, killing the convenience factor of dumping about a million photos at once. It's $149 w/o software, jumping to $249 with the Windows-only utility. [Product Page]

CompactFlash Meets SATA Speeds

CompactFlash is going SATA-compatible through new CFast connectors. Why does this matter to you? Various electronics that use CompactFlash, like digital cameras, are now stuck in PATA (parallel ATA speeds) that can check out data around 133MB per second. New SATA (serial ATA) implementation will boost this rate to 3GB/second. More »

M-Audio's MicroTrack II Digital Audio Recorder: Rock Star Quality at a Garage Band Price

The new MicroTrack II from M-Audio gives musicians everything they need to record music on the go. The handheld device features 2-channel WAV (BWF) and MP3 recording and playback and can copy files directly to CompactFlash cards or microdrives. There are also two 1/4-inch TRS inputs for your gear, 48V phantom-powered mic preamps, and drag-and-drop file transfer for both the PC and the Mac. More »

The Cutest Compact Flash Cards Ever

Are these not the cutest goddamn Compact Flash cards ever? Those Japanese really know what they're doing. [Rakuten via Gizmodo Japan]

Sony Compact Flash Memory is Real!

If you didn't believe me the first time, well here it is. See those icicles? Yeah, hell is freezing over. Here is an actual picture of the Sony Compact Flash (yes, you read that right) memory card. They actually gave in! It is now available in sizes up to 4GB. *head explodes* –Travis Hudson More »

SanDisk CF 5000 Industrial Grade Memory

Has SanDisk gone bonkers, run out of ideas, or is there actually a need for a product like this? Today, SanDisk has announced its CompactFlash 5000 series. These cards are industrial grade, and it is even printed on the actual card, so it has to be true. The cards will be available in sizes from 512MB up to 8GB and have write speeds of 30MB per second, which is pretty fast. The cards are also constructed out of higher-grade materials to prevent the wear and tear that CF cards usually endure. This isn't an excuse to let your CF 5000 card double as a dog toy, but rest assured that it will be able to withstand the rigors of your everyday CF usage. These cards will be able this summer. –Travis Hudson More »

Lexar's UDMA High Speed CF Cards For Theoretical Cameras

Playing catchup to the high speed SDHC flash format, Lexar's releasing a professional UDMA version of the ComactFlash format designed for high speed writing for photogs. This allows quick, successive snaps to be saved, which in turn lets you pick out the exact frame that Britney's PR people's smiles turned into shock-horror when they realized she was shaving her head. More »

Gasp!—Sony to Produce Compact Flash Memory

In the biggest twist of the year (including last year), Sony has announced that they will produce Compact Flash memory in addition to their proprietary MemoryStick line of flash memory. They want to target the DSLR users with the CF cards that will have transfer speeds of 66x and 133x and come in capacities up to 4GB. They are being branded with Sony's Alpha 100 DSLR camera. What's next, Sony? A PS3 price cut? –Travis Hudson More »

SanDisk Releases 12 and 16GB Extreme III CompactFlash Cards

Two cards from SanDisk for photogs who like to shoot first and ask questions later—the 12GB and 16GB Extreme III CF Cards. They both have write and read speeds of 20MB/s, and will be $779.99 and $1,049 respectively in December. – Jason Chen More »

Biometric Microdrive/CF Reader

This microdrive/compact flash reader has biometric fingerprint protection so your tasteful self-nudes will never be leaked out to the public—without your permission. The V117 lets you stick in your CF card and access it like a normal reader. Using the PC software, you encrypt all data stored on the card so that it can only be decrypted and accessed if the reader gets the right fingerprint. More »

SanDisk Extreme IV CompactFlash

Professional and semi-professional photographers are like a Top Gun-era Tom Cruise—cocky and in The Need, The Need For Speed. That's why SanDisk's Extreme IV CompactFlash cars are touted as the "fastest cards in the world" at a read/write speed of 40MB/sec. Very speedy compared to the no-name brands the weekend point-and-shoot crowd prefer. More »

Kingston 8GB CompactFlash Elite Pro

Kingston Technology released an 8GB CompactFlash Elite Pro card, a Type 1 solid-state storage device which the company says transfers data at a fairly rapid clip for a CF Card. The company quotes a read speed of 8MB per second and write speed of 6.75MB per second, which is not the fastest 8GB CF card we've seen, at least as far as manufacturers' specs go. That nod would go to the SanDisk Ultra II 8GB CF card which boasts a read speed of 10MBps and a write speed of 9MBps. More »

Buffalo 8 GB Flash Drive, 4 GB CF Card, and 800 GB External Hard Disk Enclosure

Buffalo's getting ready to release three high capacity storage devices aimed at three different markets. More »

Pretec Intros 4GB CF Card with 20MBps Read Speed

Pretec announced the 133x, a 4GB Compact Flash (CF) card the company claims can read data at 20MBps and write at 14MBps. Pretec boasts that it's the fastest CF card in the world, and 50% faster than its predecessor, the 80x. The 133x will begin shipping in late March, but no price was announced. More »