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12GB CompactFlash Cards Coming Soon

Posted by timothy on from the remember-80-meg-hard-drives? dept.

Anonymous Photographer writes "As Digital Photography Review reports, Pretec will release a 12 Gigabyte CompactFlash card by the end of the year... for just $14,900. Of course, you could save $14,300 by purchasing three Creative Labs Nomad MuVo 4 GB MP3 players and removing the Hitachi 4 GB microdrives to get the same amount of CompactFlash storage. Heck, I'll do the CF removal for you, at the low price of only $10,000. Think of the money you'll save." And for those seeking a different sort of windfall, VL writes "With MuVo 2 shells going on the cheap now, now is as good a time as any to pick one up and installing your own Compact Flash card to get it running again."

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  1. 12 GMail Accounts by DeadBugs · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Hmmmm.... Maybe I can start my own slang term for storage. (4.3GMail Hard Drive)

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  2. Wow! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    What a deal!

  3. HOLY crAP!!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    thats amazing!!!!

  4. Super by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    I do believe desktop computer is well on its way to becoming an antique. Hopefully, a flash card that large can be partitioned just like a hard disk. Exciting.

  5. Re:pros and digital by Zocalo · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Already here - it's called the Leaf/Valeo (and yes, that is an iPAQ hanging off the side). It uses a 10GB CF magazine anyway, whether it's actually a RAID or not I've not been able to ascertain.

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