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SimpleTech Announces 8GB Compact Flash Card

Posted by timothy on from the priced-just-for-nasa dept.

alterego writes "Digital Photography Review is reporting that SimpleTech has announced 2, 4, 5 and 8GB Type II Compact Flash Cards utilizing its patented IC Tower stacking technology. This comes just a month after Hitachi announced its 4GB HD in under an inch, and less than one year after Lexar announced the first 4 GB CF card, marking a huge leap in drive density. And at only $5,999 it is sure "to meet budget and performance requirements.""

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  1. Only $5,999? by Stile+65 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just in time for V-Day! I'm stocking up and getting every member of my harem one.

    Being a /. member, of course, this will be yet another costless Valentine's Day for me.

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  2. And to all the naysayers... by carl67lp · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...who said it couldn't be done for less than $10,000! Ha!

    It's at just the right price point for those who might be on the fence with CF cards. Although you can, of course, get an extra 11GB for only $50 more...

  3. Re:can I replace my laptop hard drive now? by donmiguel42 · · Score: 1, Funny

    what would the access times be like? comparable to a 42000 rpm drive?
    Pretty sure it'd be slower than that.

  4. One day... by lukewarmfusion · · Score: 4, Funny

    In the future, compact flash cards will be so large and so expensive that only the richest people in the world will have one. $5,000 - 8GB compact flash card $80 - 160GB Western Digital 7200RPM at Best Buy (wait for a sale) Unless there's a $4900 mail in rebate on the compact flash card, then no way.

  5. It needs to be said... by Eric_Cartman_South_P · · Score: 3, Funny
    That's a whole lot of porn on one card! Worth every penny.

    1. Re:It needs to be said... by Joel+Carr · · Score: 2, Funny

      If that's the sort of stuff you're after, you'd be better off using some of that $5,999 to get yourself the real thing!

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  6. Re:You know... by savagedome · · Score: 1, Funny

    Yea, but how much pr0n can it fit?

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  7. Finally, a flash card big enough... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...to cache a couple of pages of Slashdot's HTML.

  8. $6000 by dcordeiro · · Score: 3, Funny

    with $6000 you buy:
    - 20 x 160GB harddrives
    - a bunch of 80GB notebook hardrives

    4GB of data:
    - 1 DVD
    - 6 CDs

    So why would someone wants (not even asking about *needs*) this!!!
    The $$$ per GB is $1250... reality check anyone ?

    Oh, I see, I can put one of this on my digital camera that I bought for $500, and could take 1 million photografs.. that's cool.

    or does it have a Ferrari logo, and makes the sound of filling gas when plugged to your ferrari notebook ?

  9. Re:You know... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    3 minutes and 22 seconds of porn? What if I used MPEG-2?

  10. Memories... by derphilipp · · Score: 1, Funny

    With a capacity like this I can finally make photos with my digital camera of all things that are important in my life:
    My computer, my really huge capacity memory...
    Oh - just forget about that

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  11. Re:You do NOT want to do that by iangoldby · · Score: 3, Funny

    Swap is a way of extending your available (volatile) RAM using a disk, which is cheaper but slower. Flash is a way of using (non-volatile) RAM instead of a disk, which is more expensive but quieter, less power, etc.

    So using flash RAM as a swap partition is replacing cheap and fast volatile RAM with expensive and slow non-volatile RAM that has a limited lifetime. Hmm. Time to put on my thinking cap...

    I know! How about making a RAM disk in cheap volatile RAM for your swap partition. Then it will be almost as fast as normal memory. Oh, hang on a moment...

  12. Re:can I replace my laptop hard drive now? by bbsguru · · Score: 5, Funny
    Actually, that would be a RACE: A Redundant Array of Cards, Expensive. Since Johnny Cochran already patented the term, industry insiders are banking on the name MEMORY. That's a Massively Expensive Matrix Of Redundant Yottabytes.

    hmmm.... Registered Trademark Pending?

  13. Just what I've been looking for. by Esion+Modnar · · Score: 2, Funny
    And at only $5,999 it is sure "to meet budget and performance requirements.""

    Something to go along with my $750 hammer. You know what I like best? The fact that they priced it at $5999, not $6000. That makes it seem so much more affordable.

    Dang marketing weenies.

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