Thanks Oryoki, these prices seem to be making CF cards a more
attractive archiving/storage medium. Two questions:
--Do we know how long this medium of storage is reliable, compared
to, say, DVD?
--What is the significance of the "speed" that the CF cards claim?
Thanks,
David
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> Flash memory prices have headed lower in the month of September.
> Today, the way to evaluate a deal on flash memory is to multiply by
$3.
>
> For example: (4 GB * $3) = $12 so a price near $12 for a
> 4 GB flash memory card would be attractive.
>
> Sometimes the deals are considerably better than this. This weekend
> I saw offers of 4 GB for $10, 8 GB for $15, and 16 GB for $39.
>
> These offers were for SDHC memory cards. Compactflash cards are
> less popular, so they are generally a few dollars more expensive.
>
> The 1 GB and 2 GB flash memory cards are now being squeezed off the
> dealers' shelves by low cost 4 GB and 8 GB models. I expect dealers
> will repackage the small memory cards in groups of two or more.
> So be careful that the "4 GB" flash memory you're buying is not
> two 2 GB cards in the same package.
>
> --oryoki
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