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SanDisk, Transcend and PhotoFast all announced their newest, speediest CF cards in capacities ranging from 8 GB to 64 GB. With the right combination of hardware, you can now offload 16 GB of data in less than 3 minutes. This is over twice as fast as the previous SanDisk speed champion, a Ducati Edition CF card in their Firewire 800 Extreme reader.

I see B&H already lists the 64GB Extreme Pro for US$700. :shock:

http://robgalbraith.com/bins/content_pa ... 0043-10255
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would this benefit the high end Canon and Nikon cameras? :oops:
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I wouldn't even know how to backup that amount of data! Burn DVDs? Buy a Blu-Ray burner?! Tape backup? :P
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Do they even make eSATA card readers?
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poopooegg wrote:
would this benefit the high end Canon and Nikon cameras? :oops:

You will see some improvement, but nowhere near the rated speed of the cards. You will likely only see that when you have the card inserted in an appropriate card reader on the computer. Or else wait for future cameras with faster interfaces!

Personally, I have no need for such speeds. I'm shooting with a bunch of SanDisk 4GB Extreme III's (the 30MB/s versions) and I never run out of buffer space on my D700's.
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Carlton wrote:
I wouldn't even know how to backup that amount of data! Burn DVDs? Buy a Blu-Ray burner?! Tape backup? :P

Yeah, dual-layer BD-R ($$$) or start buying those 2 TB hard drives. :lol:
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Do they even make eSATA card readers?

Not AFAIK. The closest thing would be something like this:

http://www.addonics.com/products/flash_ ... adsacf.asp

There really hasn't been a need for an eSATA reader until recently. USB 2.0 readers maxed out around 35 MB/s, which is pretty fast already. The SanDisk FW800 reader with their own Ducati Edition CF cards hit about 45 MB/s. The latest 600x cards get around 70 MB/s, which is approaching the practical limit of FW800. So it was really only with the current generation that there was any need for eSATA.
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PhotoFast GMonster 533X Plus cards appear to be faster than Sandisk & Transcend and much cheaper. Good stuff.
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