SanDisk Extreme III SDHC cards hit 30MB/s
By Nilay Patel 
posted Aug 27th 2008 11:07PM
posted Aug 27th 2008 11:07PM
SanDisk's pushed both Memory Stick PRO-HG Duo and regular SD cards to 30MB/s transfer rates before, and now it's SDHC's turn with the new Extreme III series. Yep, it's a really fast memory card for DSLRs, and it'll cost you: 4GB will be $65, 8GB $110 and 16GB will set you back whopping $180 when these hit in October.[Via Digital Camera Info]
Yeah, it's about time!
No, it can't run Crysis
But, it can definitely store it !
Why do you have to mention Crysis in every second post of yours?
it cant play doom either
Once upon a time Flashpoint would make comments containing his own opinion, which often enough would get ranked down. This drove him the the edge of insanity. He now teeters between insane and himself, neither really the better. In both states he promotes the fact that he has no care for rankings, and proves it by his use of "does it run crysis" in every other post. By doing this he can snicker at low rankings and say "I meant for that to happen!" and delude himself into believing he's mocking everyone else. Before he would just be crushed that no one found him as intelligent as he did. He's still quite sure he's a genius and everyone else is just a fool.
Your Crysis install fits into 16 GB comfortably?
Reader wins the intertubes
Why not come out with a 4th model? Ultra is 2, Extreme is 3. It seems like it might be confusing with the same model name but with "30Mb/s Edition" tacked on.
There is an Extreme IV actually (only for CF currently).
I don't understand why Sandisk redid the Ultra II, Extreme III, and Extreme IV speeds (15MB/s, 30MB/s, and 45MB/s respectively).
Me want. nao
load some grammar rules onto it and you're set.
don't forget to feed it with the spelling rules.
If it's being good though, you can occasionally feed it some "lawl snakz"
Reader, I think there's a lot of readers here who could stand to eat some lawl snacks.
Almost as expensive as a SSD!
It's bigger than the Bible.
that's what she said
so is your mother
I wouldn't want to lose one of these!
um, these have been out for a while now (at least the 4 gig).
yeah but not the Exteme III editions, the transfer speeds on the old ones sucked.
i would rather have the ocz 64gb ssd for 200 dollars at newegg
Good luck sticking that SSD into your DSLR.
i wonder if this will work in my PSP?...hhmmm
no, its an sdhc card, not a memory stick duo.
It seems like solid state memory is advancing faster all the time. At this rate every laptop, cell phone, mp3 player (yes, you too iPod) should have a dedicated slot for a micro SD card, SSD or the like to be used as a secondary drive.
I was looking at buying an 8 or 16 gig touch; nifty, but in a year 8 gig mp3 players will be under $50... hard to justify buying something/anything with non-expandable memory now- with advancements like this in memory.
I'm a bit confused as to how this can do 30 megabytes a second -
Assume a 30Mhz clock (which is both fast and fairly typical for SD), and SD/SDHC having a 4 bit interface. The absolute *BEST* one could hope for is 15MB/sec, and that wouldn't happen due to SD protocol overhead.
Are they capable of running the clock faster than 30Mhz? I haven't yet come across any embedded systems that have SD interfaces that are stable at anything beyond about 25-30Mhz. I also know there are other standards that provide an 8 bit interface, but that's not what SDHC defines.
Hmm... can't it transfer 2 bits per cycle, like DDR memory does?
Check this out, dude. It will answer most of your questions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Digital_card
I'm thinking "uber" might have a place here.
Before announcing any new items...
Where is the 12GB MICROSDHC announced in January?
I think they will skip 12 and go straight to 16, which I don't think is a bad thing.