http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/09/pretec-debuts-cfast-storage-card-proclaims-it-worlds-smallest/ Engadget Comments for Pretec debuts CFast storage card, proclaims it world's smallest SATA SSD 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/2009/01/09/pretec-debuts-cfast-storage-card-proclaims-it-worlds-smallest/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/09/pretec-debuts-cfast-storage-card-proclaims-it-worlds-smallest/


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1) First of all, nowhere it is mentioned that "CFast" is not a proprietary technology, but actually the next-gen CompactFlash *standard*.

2) I don't know where he got 375MB/sec, but "CFast", like the regular SATA standard used for HDD/SSDs (aka SATA/300) is limited to 300MB/sec. Perhaps he took the raw rate of 3.0Gps? SATA has 20% encoding overheard, so 3000Mbps turns into 300MBps.

3) Currently-existing high-speed CF cards can't do much over 40MB/sec, so they are not in need of this new SATA interface yet, although it will be nice for the future.]]>Jan 9th 2009 5:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/09/pretec-debuts-cfast-storage-card-proclaims-it-worlds-smallest/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/09/pretec-debuts-cfast-storage-card-proclaims-it-worlds-smallest/Jan 9th 2009 8:15PM