World's highest capacity 100GB CF card

Leonard Goh | Sep 24, 2008

Flash memory maker Pretec was at Photokina to showcase its latest innovations, among them a 100GB CompactFlash card which should satisfy even the most demanding photographers.

Picture credit: Pretec

Canon's EOS 1Ds Mark III produces 25MB RAW files, and 4,000 of them would be able to fit into the 100GB flash memory card. That's a staggering amount of images for any photographer, and sorting through them will be a nightmare.

There is also a 64GB version with the same write-speed at 233x.

Pretec's press release states that it will start shipping these cards by the end of the year. The company didn't mention pricing, but we are guessing it's not going to be cheap.

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ferdiei

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ferdiei says...
i doubt the insides do not have real flash memory. among the myriad of memory cards out there, only compact-flash has the advantage in size, and 1/8-inch HDDs has been used the time (yr 2005 or so) they introduced 4GB~8GB capacity while other memcard formats still lingers below the 1GB mark. i suspect that this implementation is inline with the ever increasing capacities of HDD that trickle up to 1/8-inch range which was also used in the ipod-classic. so beware users about this marketing gimmick, it may only be the 64GB which truly sport a true "flash" memory after all, indicating its juxtaposed capacities of 1,2,4,8,16,32,64, & so on..

Sep 24, 2008 19:41

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rigelstuff

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rigelstuff says...
Huh? I don't know what the big deal is.
I'm no tech expert, but I can't see why a 100GB flash card can't be possible. Are you talking about SSDs?
Either way, I don't see why this is an issue. I don't see what "gimmick" you're talking about.

Sep 26, 2008 16:59

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ferdiei

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ferdiei says...
if it sport a 1.8inch HDD it should not be marketed as a flash memory card as it will cause confusion & wrong consumer perception about the huge difference between these 2 tech (ssd VS hdd) in terms of performance & reliability. so if that 100GB is fine with you, go ahead & buy it.

Sep 26, 2008 20:48

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FishSM says...
FINALLY... Is SD going to be that BIG too? So i guess Flash-Base HardDisk will soon be available in 64GB after the Creative Zen X-Fi 32GB. Just cant wait for it. At least the life-span is much more longer than Current HardDisk, without worries of it CRASHING...

Oct 06, 2008 06:30

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