Elecom introduces SDXC-compatible card reader, waits for you to afford SDXC cards

Panasonic's duo of SDXC cards should be shipping out this month, which means that you'll be needing a new card reader on the double. Of course, it's not like you're really about to pay upwards of $450 for 32GB of wicked fast Secure Digital storage (or $600 for the 64 gigger), but hey, it's hard to knock Elecom for being proactive. Said outfit has just released what looks to be the first multicard readers to openly support SDXC, with the MR-A001BK handling ten formats and the MR-A002 supporting a grand total of 32 -- some of which haven't been used regularly since Vikings ruled the north. Both are expected to ship in Japan later this month, with pricing set for ¥1,890 ($21) and ¥2,415 ($27) in order of mention.

[bigdonny Posted Feb 9th 2010 9:34AM]

$150 for a terabyte you say?

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 9th 2010 10:06AM]

But does it support usb 3?

[ango Posted Feb 9th 2010 10:31AM]

@(Unverified) if 3.0 it's not included damn this will be slow but sdxc will have to capacity 1TB and more

[beaups Posted Feb 9th 2010 10:35AM]

@ango

Amazing all these USB 3.0 posts. USB 2.0 is faster than most any card out there. Why would USB 3.0 magically make the cards faster??

[Old fogie late bloomer Posted Feb 9th 2010 10:31AM]

Am I the only one whose eyes grazed the word "gigger" and was like... "Wait WHAT? Oh...."?

[Michael Pollard Posted Feb 9th 2010 2:18PM]

That's a small card reader to handle multiple formats. Look at the relative size of the MICRO SD card slot. The whole thing's, what, 1 1/2" wide and 3/4" deep?

[versionII Posted Feb 9th 2010 5:19PM]

is the memory stick duo supposed to go in horizontally?