Lexar
Media has today announced new 16x professional Compact Flash cards. Lexar
claim a throughput of 2.4 MB per second (although they don't specify which
camera this was tested on) where 1x is 150 KB/sec. In our own tests a
standard OEM card is capable of approximately 4x, more recent large capacity
cards from SimpleTech, Kingston, Pretec, Ridata etc. are at least capable
of 8 - 12x speeds. "Improvements in camera resolution and image quality
have increased the importance of our speed-rated CompactFlash cards,''
said Eric Stang, president and CEO, Lexar Media. "Lexar Media has
long been the performance leader in memory cards and the only company
to individually speed-rate its products..."
(13:20 GMT)
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Lexar
Media has today announced new 16x professional Compact Flash cards. Lexar
claim a throughput of 2.4 MB per second (although they don't specify which
camera this was tested on) where 1x is 150 KB/sec. In our own tests a
standard OEM card is capable of approximately 4x, more recent large capacity
cards from SimpleTech, Kingston, Pretec, Ridata etc. are at least capable
of 8 - 12x speeds. "Improvements in camera resolution and image quality
have increased the importance of our speed-rated CompactFlash cards,''
said Eric Stang, president and CEO, Lexar Media. "Lexar Media has
long been the performance leader in memory cards and the only company
to individually speed-rate its products..."
(13:20 GMT)