August 03, 2005 | Back
SanDisk Cards Recognized for Speed, Performance and Versatility
Filed under category: Peripherals
Having memory lapses? You may need this. SanDisk Corporation's SanDisk Extreme III card family, 8-gigabyte (GB), SanDisk Ultra II CompactFlash and new SanDisk Ultra II PLUS SD card line have won three Editor's Choice Awards by American PHOTO Magazine.
SanDisk Ultra II cards are targeted at digital cameras with 4-megapixel or higher resolution that can take advantage of a significantly faster memory card. Each card features a minimum write speed of 9 megabytes per second (MB/sec.) and a minimum read speed of 10MB/sec. The SanDisk Ultra II PLUS SD is a SD flash memory card with built-in USB connectivity, simplifying the process of moving images from a camera to a PC. SanDisk Extreme III cards are for professional-level digital SLRs that can take advantage of its read and write speeds of up to 20-megabytes per second (MB/sec). They are available in CompactFlash, Memory Stick PRO and SD card formats. The CompactFlash and SD cards have minimum write and read speeds of 20MB/sec. Memory Stick PRO has minimum write and read speeds of 18MB/sec. The cards range in capacity between 1 and 4GB. Try to remember all this...
> Source: SanDisk
> Estimated price: $30 to $300
> Date released/expected: N/A
Posted on August 3, 2005 12:15 PM
