News - Sony debuts new 168MB/s memory cards

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New XQD cards offer "the industry's highest transfer rate".

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Are people gone mad? For these prices premium SSD with 2x storage space can be bought. 2x the speed 10x the price..

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Originally Posted by edvinasm

Are people gone mad? For these prices premium SSD with 2x storage space can be bought. 2x the speed 10x the price..

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You do realise these are memory cards that you fit inside your digital camera.. not SSDs that go inside computers.

My Canon 400D needs upgrading, this would be a great excuse if Canon start using these.

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Originally Posted by edvinasm

Are people gone mad? For these prices premium SSD with 2x storage space can be bought. 2x the speed 10x the price..

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How may cameras do you know that can supply 3.3V and 5V power up to several Watts to a hot-swappable 2.5" disk bay? Pretty much takes us out of the handheld territory even if some crazy loon was to build one.

XQD are memory card sized. (edit: large-ish - more comparable to CF)

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Originally Posted by kingpotnoodle

How may cameras do you know that can supply 3.3V and 5V power up to several Watts to a hot-swappable 2.5" disk bay?

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Indeed probably only one - RED One :)

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Originally Posted by brasco

Indeed probably only one - RED One :)

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That's quite a piece of kit! I don't think XQD are aimed at those beasts.