Lexar Turns On the Jets, Launches World's First 1000x Memory Card
Lexar Turns On the Jets, Launches World's First 1000x Memory Card
Posted 01/05/2012 at 8:22am
| by Paul Lilly
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Live fast, love hard, and take a lot of pictures. If that's the motto you have tattooed on your arm, consider having it removed because that's a silly way to ink up your skin. Afterwards, take a peek at Lexar's new Professional 1000x CompactFlash (CF) card, the industry's first 1000x memory card serving up a minimum guaranteed sustained read speed of 150MB per second to help capture high quality images, 1080p Full HD video, and yes, even 3D video.
The Lexar Professional 1000x CF memory card is compatible with all UDMA CF and CF devices, so don't worry about your recently purchased DSLR tripping over itself. It supports the VPG-20 specification, which means Lexar tested and guarantees professional capture streams at up to 20MB per second, allowing you to record those Tosh.0 moments at high frame rates with no dropped frames.
Speed like this comes at a cost. Beginning February 2012, you'll be able to snag a 16GB Lexar Professional 1000x CompactFlash card for $170, 32GB for $300, 64GB for $530, and 128GB for $900.
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Belboz99
January 05, 2012 at 1:11pm
Does anyone else find it odd or amusing that flash cards, as well as DVD players and their media, are rated against the data rate of a CD-ROM playing back an audio CD in real-time?
Seriously, why the redundant or otherwise irrelevant stat?
It's like saying, "My car goes up to 40x speed..." which someone has to decipher and interpret to mean 40x the average walking speed of a human, "...which equates to 120MPH."
Why not just list it by it's read and write speeds?
Hell, it's not like the drive reads and writes at the same speed anyway!
Dan O.
hades_2100
January 05, 2012 at 2:32pm
Is it sensible to say that a Dodge Viper has a 450 horse-power engine? Why not just say 4s to 60km/s?
Yet we still use it.
JohnP
January 05, 2012 at 12:12pm
Paul, I think you mean "minimum guaranteed WRITE speed of 150MB/sec" as the card captures info during a write to the card not a read to the card. Check that will you.
Anyway you look at it, for Solid state memory card that is damn fast!
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