SanDisk claims 45MB/sec write speeds for new SDHC

Announced about a year ago, the SD Card Association’s SD 3.0 specification has yet to gain much traction. Panasonic and Toshiba both announced UHS-I SDHC products last September, with Toshiba claiming ultrafast write speeds of up to 80 megabytes per second. But those cards have yet to materialize.

At CES 2011, Kingston announced a new series of UHS-I cards, unfortunately dubbed UltimateXX, with a claimed 35MB/sec write speed and slated to be available this month. SanDisk now ups the ante, expanding its Extreme Pro line of of flash cards from CompactFlash to SDHC, with the momentarily fastest spec of up to 45MB/sec write speed, It also has a video-rated minimum sustainable write speed of 10MB/sec.

You’re definitely paying a premium. Prices range from $109.99 for the 8GB card to $349.99 for the 32GB card. In contrast, you can get the 30MB/sec version of SanDisk’s 32GB card for about $170. Which raises the question: what kind of speed boost does that extra dough buy you?
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Tags: Extreme Pro, memory card, portable storage, Sandisk Extreme Pro, SD 3.0

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