Filed under: Digital Cameras, Peripherals, Wireless, Storage

Been longing for Eye-Fi support in your Sony a350? Or any CompactFlash-lovin’ camera, for that matter? Meet Synchrotech, your new best friend. The company famous for making incredibly useful adapters has just pumped out its latest stroke of genius, the CFMulti. As you’d expect, this card fits into traditional CF slots but enables Secure Digital cards to be read, including Eye-Fi’s range of wireless SD cards. In addition to that, the device accepts standard SD / SDHC and MMC / MMC+ cards. You know you’d pay $28 for all that functionality in one tight package, right?

[Via MacsimumNews, thanks Robert]

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If you’re jonesing for the quickest, most nimble CF card this planet has to offer, you’ll be hard pressed to find one quicker and more nimble than this. Following up on Pretec’s launch, SanDisk has started shipping its 16GB 300x (45MB/sec) Extreme IV CompactFlash card, which marks a 12.5% increase in speed and 50% boost in capacity compared to its predecessor. Oh, but then there’s the $399.99 price tag. We know, right?

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Remember the days when 64GB sounded huge for a CompactFlash card? Well, now you can pick up the world’s largest CF: a 100GB Pretec 233x operating at a zippy 35MB/sec. And if that’s not big enough for you, through some kind of crazy voodoo magic (aka Pretec Q-SATA) four 64GB cards can be transformed into a 256GB SATA drive — assuming you have $1,596 burning a hole in your pocket. And if speed is your game, Pretec can outfit you with a 333x 32GB CF card running at a record-breaking 50MB/sec for merely $630 — chump change, right?

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Filed under: Desktops, Peripherals, Storage

As your never-ending quest to find peripherals specifically made to match beautifully with your PowerMac G5 / Mac Pro continues, we’ve one that’ll surely shoot right to the top of your must-have list. Nervian’s CardReader Pro slips just under the front handle of your tower, providing (almost) integrated card reader functionality without putting a damper on your rig’s style. Better still, the USB 2.0 unit supports 52 different flavors of flash memory, ensuring that just about every card you toss in there will mount in short order. There’s no word on how costly this will be when it ships in October, but those definitely interested can nab 15% off by signing up for details at the outfit’s website.

[Thanks, choco]

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A-DATA’s latest CompactFlash cards were designed to be looked at longingly by even the most demanding photographer, and while the average joe probably won’t have the kit to appreciate just how speedy these things are, we’ll do our best to explain. The Turbo Series CF 350X memory card features a read speed of 52MB/sec and a write speed of 47MB/sec, whereas Delkin’s “world’s fastest” model packs a sustained read / write rate of 45MB/sec. Regrettably, A-DATA isn’t handing out pricing details just yet, but we do know they’ll soon be available in 8GB and 16GB editions.

[Via Electronista]

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Filed under: Digital Cameras, Storage

At long last and a full year and a half after Samsung first touted a 64GB Compact Flash card, Microdia steps onto the scene with the world’s first product. Almost. By the end of June, Microdia will begin shipping its 64GB XTRA ELITE CF card to the photog masses. The UDMA card brings a sustained read / write speed of 300x or 45MBps making it perfectly suited to high-burst rate DSLRs. Now if only we had a price to calculate the cost of our new 192GB SSD. Full press release after the break.

[Via PC Authority]

Continue reading Microdia beats Samsung to market with world’s first 64GB CF card

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We’ve seen CF-SATA converters before, but what if you were to create a SATA shaped, sized, and interfaced enclosure and allow users to throw Compact Flash cards in there to make their own SSDs for more standard installs? Sans Digital’s CS1T is a single-card Compact Flash CF to 2.5″ SATA enclosure and the CR2T is a dual-card enclosure that uses RAID to support up to 64GB. Both utilize IDE and, when closed, look and act just like 2.5-inch HDDs for your various installation needs.

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Akihabara News managed to snap up Century’s 3x Compact Flash adapter for review. As expected, the do-it-yourself SATA adapter aggregates a trio of CF cards and presents them as a single solid state disk to your computer in either RAID 0 (better capacity) or RAID 5 (better integrity) modes. The one caveat is this: the speed of the SSD is determined by the slowest CF in the mix. Regardless, this is without a doubt the most inexpensive way to create a quick and dirty SSD at about half the cost of an off-the-shelf, retail model. Check the action after the break.

Continue reading Video: Century’s Compact Flash SSD SATA adapter reviewed

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You know how much we love SSDs around here, but getting one the legit way currently involves poking a rather large hole in your wallet — so we were pretty interested to see how a jury-rigged SSD built using that CompactFlash-to-SATA adapter we spotted a while back would hold up. While we probably would have sprung for something a little larger than the 4GB drives used in the test, the results are pretty encouraging: DIY SSD drives were overall faster than the 1.8-inch drive found in the MacBook Air, and even a little faster than the VAIO TZ’s 64GB SSD. The drives were also bested by a 7200rpm 2.5-inch drive and a 128GB SATA SSD, as you’d expect, but what we weren’t expecting was the negligible hit on power consumption — it looks like SSDs really don’t use less power, as the unchanged battery life of the SSD MacBook Air hinted. Still — you know we want one. Check out all the results and a little howto action after the break.

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Filed under: Digital Cameras

Here you go champ, the “world’s fastest” 16GB UDMA CompactFlash PRO card from Delkin. Best suited for use in your UDMA capable Canon 1Ds Mark III or D300 and D3x from Nikon, the $400 CF Pro card busts a 305x read/write speed (45MB/sec sustained). For those keeping track, that’s a non-noticeable bump from the previous 300x record — but so it goes in the diffident world of the product marketeer. The cards work with non-UDMA shooters too, and make for lickity-quick RAW image transfers to your PC when using UDMA-capable card readers. Available now, as in today.

[Via Digital Media Thoughts]

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Scouting a 1U, rackmountable two-channel audio recorder? What about a solid state version? If you just so happened to answer yes to the previous questions, Teac’s got you covered. The outfit’s HD-R1 Recorder relies on CompactFlash cards to store up to 24-bit / 48kHz PCM or MP3 files and can be controlled remotely via LAN or RS-232C. Additionally, the unit touts a USB port, mic preamps, phantom power, RCA, XLR, Euroblock and S/PDIF inputs, and the blue-backlit display is a nice touch, too. Teac has apparently been busy showing its new toy off at Inter BEE 2007, but those tempted by the above specs can secure their own for around $1,100.

[Image courtesy of Sweetwater]

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