Sandisk 8GB Extreme IV compact flash 109.95!!

[Tonaci Tran]

http://www.adorama.com/IDSCF8GE4.html

I was shopping for another cf card for my canon dslr and stumbled on this great rebate deal that is valid until the end of may. 109.95 for a 8gb Extreme IV compact flash.

Add to the fact that these will work with RED (view link below).. this is a great bargain.

http://reduser.net/forum/showpost.php?p=41999&postcount=87

[Alexander Nikishin]

18 minutes of 4k on 4 CF flash cards for about $400, sounds like a deal to me.

[Jaime Vallés]

Yeah, I'm more and more excited about the CF option for RED. Solid state security, and cheap as heck. Take THAT, P2!!!

[Gunleik Groven]

Me likes, too

[Paul Hazlett]

I like where this is going but unless we get a multicard setup like P2
we are limited to 2.5 minutes per load right now.

Or we wait for 32 GB cards.

Still very encouraging

[Gunleik Groven]

This has been discussed ad nauseum, but I still would like to raise my voice for a 4-or-more-cards CF slot, RAID'ed or not.

But then there is the 64GB solid thing for 6.500,-$ to concider.

G

[Tonaci Tran]

"we are limited to 2.5 minutes per load right now"
you mean 4.5 right?

But I here you on the multislot. That would be incredible. At two slots would be great wihtout making it too bulky..and perhaps a bigger 4+ multislot in it's own external enclosure like the red drive.

[Alexander Nikishin]

we are limited to 2.5 minutes per load right now.


4 1/2 minutes actually.

FYI,

REDCODE RAW = 1.5GB/m

RAW = 19GB/m

[Mark B.]

For not much more than two 8GB cards you could get one 16GB card. Or is the 22MB/sec data transfer rate too slow?

http://www.flash-memory-store.com/qmemory-compact-flash-150x-16gb.html

[Tom Lowe]

109.95 for a 8gb Extreme IV compact flash.

That's a steal! I paid like $250 each for my 4GB cards. 8GB is ideal for DLSR timelapses.

[Tonaci Tran]

Lowkus, unfortunately too slow. redcode raw needs at least 27mb/sec. only other card that I have seen which may work is the new lexar 300x speed cf cards.

[Paul Hazlett]

oops. 2 and a half did seem awfully short.

[Jaime Vallés]

Fear not... By the time we all get our cameras, 16GB CF cards should be available at the speeds we need, and 32GB cards won't be far behind.

[Tonaci Tran]

16gb at 100 will probably be reality by end of year, or early next year. I tried searching for 16gb extreme iv news..but it looks like they haven't been able to hit the 16gb at the extreme iv speed yet. If sandisk doesn't do it..hopefully other companies will.

[Jeff Kilgroe]

Sandisk reps at CES (back in January) were saying they would have the Extreme IV 16GB card out in June. But I don't think I've seen an actual, official announcement to that effect yet. They were also saying 32GB CF cards by end of the year or for sure in January and they demonstrated 32GB CF at the show. But I never saw any performance reports or benchmarks of the 32GB units. I'm hoping for 16GB E-IV cards by late this year so I can primarily shoot with a handful of those and one or two RED Drives.

[Joe Carney]

this sounds like a business opportunity for a 3rd party supplier. A device that plugs into the CF slot and support multiple cards in Raid 0.

[Paul Hazlett]

interesting zeke...

so there is one end that has the interface and is tethered to a small box you could velcro anywhere that contains the raid board and three slots. that would be good especially with 32 gig cards.

Ok any brainiacs with time on there hands?