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Subject: Re: flash memory prices continue to decline
From: "David Kuhn" dkuhn012001
Date: Sun Sep 21, 2008 1:00 pm ((PDT))
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

--- In  "oryoki2000" <> 
wrote:
>
> 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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