SimpleTech Announces 8GB Compact Flash Card

alterego writes "Digital Photography Review is reporting that SimpleTech has announced 2, 4, 5 and 8GB Type II Compact Flash Cards utilizing its patented IC Tower stacking technology. This comes just a month after Hitachi announced its 4GB HD in under an inch, and less than one year after Lexar announced the first 4 GB CF card, marking a huge leap in drive density. And at only $5,999 it is sure "to meet budget and performance requirements.""

Only $5,999?

[Stile 65]

Just in time for V-Day! I'm stocking up and getting every member of my harem one.

Being a /. member, of course, this will be yet another costless Valentine's Day for me.

And to all the naysayers...

[carl67lp]

...who said it couldn't be done for less than $10,000! Ha!

It's at just the right price point for those who might be on the fence with CF cards. Although you can, of course, get an extra 11GB for only $50 more...

Re:can I replace my laptop hard drive now?

[donmiguel42]

what would the access times be like? comparable to a 42000 rpm drive?
Pretty sure it'd be slower than that.

One day...

[lukewarmfusion]

In the future, compact flash cards will be so large and so expensive that only the richest people in the world will have one. $5,000 - 8GB compact flash card $80 - 160GB Western Digital 7200RPM at Best Buy (wait for a sale) Unless there's a $4900 mail in rebate on the compact flash card, then no way.

It needs to be said...

[Eric_Cartman_South_P]

That's a whole lot of porn on one card! Worth every penny.

8gig CF cards!?!?!!

[l0ungeb0y]

All I can say is *drool*

Seriously, this is huge! Must suck to be Apple right now though, considering they just released the mini iPods which are based on tech that is already looking rather inferior. Who knows, maybe Apple will release a "mini iPod mini" they could call it the mini-squared (damn no superscript)....
Regardless, my Digital Rebel [canoneos.com] is about to interface with bliss!

Re:You know...

[savagedome]

Yea, but how much pr0n can it fit?

Finally, a flash card big enough...

[Anonymous Coward]

...to cache a couple of pages of Slashdot's HTML.

Re:It needs to be said...

[Joel Carr]

If that's the sort of stuff you're after, you'd be better off using some of that $5,999 to get yourself the real thing!

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$6000

[dcordeiro]

with $6000 you buy:
- 20 x 160GB harddrives
- a bunch of 80GB notebook hardrives

4GB of data:
- 1 DVD
- 6 CDs

So why would someone wants (not even asking about *needs*) this!!!
The $$$ per GB is $1250... reality check anyone ?

Oh, I see, I can put one of this on my digital camera that I bought for $500, and could take 1 million photografs.. that's cool.

or does it have a Ferrari logo, and makes the sound of filling gas when plugged to your ferrari notebook ?

Re:You know...

[Anonymous Coward]

3 minutes and 22 seconds of porn? What if I used MPEG-2?

Memories...

[derphilipp]

With a capacity like this I can finally make photos with my digital camera of all things that are important in my life:
My computer, my really huge capacity memory...
Oh - just forget about that

Re:You do NOT want to do that

[iangoldby]

Swap is a way of extending your available (volatile) RAM using a disk, which is cheaper but slower. Flash is a way of using (non-volatile) RAM instead of a disk, which is more expensive but quieter, less power, etc.

So using flash RAM as a swap partition is replacing cheap and fast volatile RAM with expensive and slow non-volatile RAM that has a limited lifetime. Hmm. Time to put on my thinking cap...

I know! How about making a RAM disk in cheap volatile RAM for your swap partition. Then it will be almost as fast as normal memory. Oh, hang on a moment...

Re:can I replace my laptop hard drive now?

[bbsguru]

Actually, that would be a RACE: A Redundant Array of Cards, Expensive. Since Johnny Cochran already patented the term, industry insiders are banking on the name MEMORY. That's a Massively Expensive Matrix Of Redundant Yottabytes.

hmmm.... Registered Trademark Pending?

Just what I've been looking for.

[Esion Modnar]

And at only $5,999 it is sure "to meet budget and performance requirements.""

Something to go along with my $750 hammer. You know what I like best? The fact that they priced it at $5999, not $6000. That makes it seem so much more affordable.

Dang marketing weenies.