Silicon Power crams 128GB into 400x Compact Flash card: a world's first

Whoa, we just hit yet another major performance milestone in removable storage. Silicon Power is touting the world's first 128GB 400x Compact Flash card with write speeds of 90MBps and support for PIO Mode-6 (as defined by CompactFlash spec 2.0) and Multi-Word DMA 4 (as defined by CompactFlash spec 2.1) transfer mode in quad-channel configurations. In other words, it'll play nice with new HD video capable DSLR shooters. Unfortunately, the card is only being announced today -- no price or ship date in the press release. Sigh.

[artist Posted Jan 19th 2010 7:46AM]

goodbye stupid ancient spinning-shiny-disc-media.

ahhh...i can finally breathe!

[F C Posted Jan 19th 2010 4:50PM]

@artist
Say goodbye to CF also while you're at it; it's exit is not that far behind.

[Kev007 Posted Jan 19th 2010 7:52AM]

this just rocked my balls

[nachotech Posted Jan 19th 2010 7:59AM]

Is this compatible with the SDXC memory card specification? The last thing we need is a different flash card spec.

[yakill Posted Jan 19th 2010 8:26AM]

@nachotech
Don't think so.
It's Compaact Flash Formfactor != Secure Digital Formfactor
and probably FAT32 whereas SDXC is using exFAT.

[NHAnimator Posted Jan 19th 2010 8:09AM]

Stick THAT in your laptop!

[yakill Posted Jan 19th 2010 8:24AM]

@(Unverified)
Well, no!
Come on to be honest this is a nice piece of photo equipment i would like to own.

But putting it into laptop?
The Price of this baby will be high high high, i bet a nice state of the art 2,5" SSD won't be more expensive.

Nice hardware to have yes.
But in my laptop i'll stay with real computer gear.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 19th 2010 8:15AM]

Does it still have the 4GB FAT file limit meaning only 12mins of HD video?

[tjrohleder Posted Jan 19th 2010 9:28AM]

This is unbelievable. Who needs CDs/DVDs anymore?

128GB? You've got to be kidding me!

It wasn't too long ago where most hard drives were smaller than that.

Onward and upward!

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TJ Rohleder

[Tg Posted Jan 19th 2010 9:53AM]

todays special price 1000000$ =)

[Pipp Posted Jan 19th 2010 9:55AM]

I want a nano with 3 of these chained together.

[Wolfticket Posted Jan 19th 2010 10:07AM]

I wish using the data rate of an audio CD for speeds would die.
What's wrong with MBps? How is a 1x CD drive a useful benchmark for data transfer any more?

[yakill Posted Jan 19th 2010 12:11PM]

@Wolfticket
Totally agree with that!!

[docbrown88 Posted Jan 19th 2010 12:46PM]

Wow. Per the CF spec, this is basically the end of the line, in terms of capacity...

Next, how about "dual core" CF? :P

[Dafrety Posted Jan 19th 2010 4:01PM]

Wow. 128 GB iPod Mini, you have arrived!

[cosmicinglewood Posted Jan 21st 2010 5:37AM]

If 16gb can fit on a microsd, this is not noteworthy!