http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/pretec-breaks-records-banks-with-100gb-64gb-and-ultra-fast-32/ Engadget Comments for Pretec breaks records, banks with 100GB, 64GB, and ultra-fast 32GB CF cards http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/pretec-breaks-records-banks-with-100gb-64gb-and-ultra-fast-32/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/pretec-breaks-records-banks-with-100gb-64gb-and-ultra-fast-32/Sep 23rd 2008 1:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/pretec-breaks-records-banks-with-100gb-64gb-and-ultra-fast-32/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/pretec-breaks-records-banks-with-100gb-64gb-and-ultra-fast-32/Sep 23rd 2008 2:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/pretec-breaks-records-banks-with-100gb-64gb-and-ultra-fast-32/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/pretec-breaks-records-banks-with-100gb-64gb-and-ultra-fast-32/Sep 23rd 2008 1:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/pretec-breaks-records-banks-with-100gb-64gb-and-ultra-fast-32/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/pretec-breaks-records-banks-with-100gb-64gb-and-ultra-fast-32/Sep 23rd 2008 1:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/pretec-breaks-records-banks-with-100gb-64gb-and-ultra-fast-32/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/pretec-breaks-records-banks-with-100gb-64gb-and-ultra-fast-32/Sep 23rd 2008 1:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/pretec-breaks-records-banks-with-100gb-64gb-and-ultra-fast-32/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/pretec-breaks-records-banks-with-100gb-64gb-and-ultra-fast-32/Sep 23rd 2008 2:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/pretec-breaks-records-banks-with-100gb-64gb-and-ultra-fast-32/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/pretec-breaks-records-banks-with-100gb-64gb-and-ultra-fast-32/Sep 23rd 2008 2:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/pretec-breaks-records-banks-with-100gb-64gb-and-ultra-fast-32/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/pretec-breaks-records-banks-with-100gb-64gb-and-ultra-fast-32/Sep 23rd 2008 3:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/pretec-breaks-records-banks-with-100gb-64gb-and-ultra-fast-32/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/pretec-breaks-records-banks-with-100gb-64gb-and-ultra-fast-32/Sep 23rd 2008 3:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/pretec-breaks-records-banks-with-100gb-64gb-and-ultra-fast-32/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/pretec-breaks-records-banks-with-100gb-64gb-and-ultra-fast-32/Sep 23rd 2008 3:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/pretec-breaks-records-banks-with-100gb-64gb-and-ultra-fast-32/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/pretec-breaks-records-banks-with-100gb-64gb-and-ultra-fast-32/Sep 23rd 2008 1:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/pretec-breaks-records-banks-with-100gb-64gb-and-ultra-fast-32/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/pretec-breaks-records-banks-with-100gb-64gb-and-ultra-fast-32/Sep 23rd 2008 1:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/pretec-breaks-records-banks-with-100gb-64gb-and-ultra-fast-32/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/pretec-breaks-records-banks-with-100gb-64gb-and-ultra-fast-32/Sep 23rd 2008 1:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/pretec-breaks-records-banks-with-100gb-64gb-and-ultra-fast-32/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/pretec-breaks-records-banks-with-100gb-64gb-and-ultra-fast-32/Sep 23rd 2008 1:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/pretec-breaks-records-banks-with-100gb-64gb-and-ultra-fast-32/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/pretec-breaks-records-banks-with-100gb-64gb-and-ultra-fast-32/
You can also get an adapter for the regular-sized iPods. I figure when my Classic eventually goes, I'll swap in a 64GB or 128GB CF card for reasonably cheap by that point.
]]>Sep 23rd 2008 2:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/pretec-breaks-records-banks-with-100gb-64gb-and-ultra-fast-32/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/pretec-breaks-records-banks-with-100gb-64gb-and-ultra-fast-32/Sep 24th 2008 5:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/pretec-breaks-records-banks-with-100gb-64gb-and-ultra-fast-32/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/pretec-breaks-records-banks-with-100gb-64gb-and-ultra-fast-32/Sep 23rd 2008 1:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/pretec-breaks-records-banks-with-100gb-64gb-and-ultra-fast-32/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/pretec-breaks-records-banks-with-100gb-64gb-and-ultra-fast-32/Given that I can get 12 terabytes of hard drives for the same price as that 256GB flash array, I think you know which way I'd be looking.]]>Sep 23rd 2008 7:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/pretec-breaks-records-banks-with-100gb-64gb-and-ultra-fast-32/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/pretec-breaks-records-banks-with-100gb-64gb-and-ultra-fast-32/Sep 23rd 2008 1:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/pretec-breaks-records-banks-with-100gb-64gb-and-ultra-fast-32/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/pretec-breaks-records-banks-with-100gb-64gb-and-ultra-fast-32/Sep 23rd 2008 2:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/pretec-breaks-records-banks-with-100gb-64gb-and-ultra-fast-32/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/pretec-breaks-records-banks-with-100gb-64gb-and-ultra-fast-32/Sep 23rd 2008 2:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/pretec-breaks-records-banks-with-100gb-64gb-and-ultra-fast-32/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/pretec-breaks-records-banks-with-100gb-64gb-and-ultra-fast-32/Sep 23rd 2008 2:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/pretec-breaks-records-banks-with-100gb-64gb-and-ultra-fast-32/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/pretec-breaks-records-banks-with-100gb-64gb-and-ultra-fast-32/Sep 23rd 2008 9:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/pretec-breaks-records-banks-with-100gb-64gb-and-ultra-fast-32/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/pretec-breaks-records-banks-with-100gb-64gb-and-ultra-fast-32/Sep 23rd 2008 2:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/pretec-breaks-records-banks-with-100gb-64gb-and-ultra-fast-32/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/pretec-breaks-records-banks-with-100gb-64gb-and-ultra-fast-32/Sep 23rd 2008 2:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/pretec-breaks-records-banks-with-100gb-64gb-and-ultra-fast-32/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/pretec-breaks-records-banks-with-100gb-64gb-and-ultra-fast-32/Sep 23rd 2008 2:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/pretec-breaks-records-banks-with-100gb-64gb-and-ultra-fast-32/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/pretec-breaks-records-banks-with-100gb-64gb-and-ultra-fast-32/Or heck if you can quadruple those 333x 32GB CF's, then you get a 128GB with 200MB/s. Also nice. (though the post just says "operating at such and such speed" .....is that read or write or are both equal?]]>Sep 23rd 2008 2:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/pretec-breaks-records-banks-with-100gb-64gb-and-ultra-fast-32/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/pretec-breaks-records-banks-with-100gb-64gb-and-ultra-fast-32/I mean, flash memory is cool for its shock resistance, but in any static application... who cares? You're going to burn through these things pretty fast running BitTorrent or something on 'em, too.
I can't find supporting statistics for it, but I believe flash has a much shorter lifetime than the magnetic media used in most hard drives.

PS: Upon further reasearch, I've discovered that my earlier comment was somewhat misleading: information close to the inner edge fo the platter may have actual transfer speeds as low as ~50MB/s, according to Wikipedia:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_drive#Other_characteristics.
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Hells yeah, for professional sports photographers. Those guys EASILY spend tens of thousands of dollars on their lenses and camera bodies - and having a faster CF card, you'll be able to take more shots in one go with rapid shooting - also useful for wedding photographers or any other photographer who needs to photograph something that's not going to happen again; i.e. cannot be reposed, like the touchdown or the first kiss as man and wife.]]>Sep 23rd 2008 2:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/pretec-breaks-records-banks-with-100gb-64gb-and-ultra-fast-32/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/pretec-breaks-records-banks-with-100gb-64gb-and-ultra-fast-32/Sep 23rd 2008 6:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/pretec-breaks-records-banks-with-100gb-64gb-and-ultra-fast-32/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/pretec-breaks-records-banks-with-100gb-64gb-and-ultra-fast-32/Sep 23rd 2008 3:06AM