Elecom's 8GB SDHC card is class-4, too

Joining Toshiba at the top of the SDHC capacity/speed game is Elecom with this, the world's second class-4, 8GB SDHC card. Not class-2 son, oh no, this is class-4 so we're talking a 4MB/s minimum write speed. Elecom claims you'll see a max transfer rate of 7MB/s when these launch (before Toshiba?) in the first part of January. Fine, but what interests us more is the price: about ¥39,800 or $343. See Toshiba, it's not all that hard to provide a price now is it? Now get moving, pressures on to beat Elecom if you want to live up to your "world's first" claim.

[Via Impress]

[par @ Nov 30th 2006 10:45AM]

I'll be getting one of these for my Wii. I hope it supports them.

[Kevlar @ Nov 30th 2006 11:16AM]

I don't think it does, unfortunatly. The Wii supports SD, not SDHC, and there were rumours of a 2gb max, even with SD.

[Cesar L @ Nov 30th 2006 1:57PM]

You can use up to a 4gb SD... but in order to move saves from the wii to the SD, there can only be 2gb or under of free space on the card... The Photo channel can access the whole card, but the Save Manager cannot see more than 2GB worth of blocks (approximately 16000 blocks). I also found out that my wii can read the movies my canon camera takes... they must be motion jpeg, but they have a .avi extension.

Figured this out on day #2 of owning a wii :)

[Craig @ Nov 30th 2006 2:24PM]

We're supposed to be impressed by "4MB/s minimum write speed"?? SanDisk currently sells 4GB cards with 12MB/s. Why so slow?