What Would You Do with 8 Gigs?

[Brad Isaac]

I just got a press release that Sandisk is now marketing an 8GB High speed Compact Flash card to the general public. It runs about $960 in US funds to buy, but woah...what a lot of space. What would you do with that amount of memory and storage?
"SanDisk® Corporation (Nasdaq:SNDK) announced today that is has quadrupled the capacity of its high-speed SanDisk Ultra® II line of flash memory cards that includes the development of a new 8GB CompactFlash® Type I card. The top end SanDisk Ultra II Memory Stick PRO™ and SD™ cards now boast 4GB and 2GB of capacity respectively. The announcement was made at the Photokina trade show where SanDisk is demonstrating products in Hall 1.2, aisle A, Booth 059.
Each SanDisk Ultra II card features a minimum write speed of 9 megabytes per second (MB/sec.) and a minimum read speed of 10MB/sec.(1) (Results based on testing with the popular HDBENCH benchmark software; actual results in digital cameras will vary by camera model.) The Ultra II cards are primarily targeted at serious photographers with 4-megapixel or higher resolution digital cameras that require fast, high capacity digital film cards to quickly shoot many high resolution images.
Martin Achatzi, owner and general manager at Foto Achatzi in Bad Laasphe, a leading photography retailer, said, “SanDisk is a well known brand and the SanDisk Ultra II cards have been very popular with digital photographers who use cameras such as the Canon EOS Rebel or the Nikon D70. Our customers expect high quality products with matching performance and we believe the new high capacity Ultra II cards will exceed the expectations of our customers.”
Tanya Chuang, SanDisk retail product marketing manager, said, “The award-winning SanDisk Ultra II line represents an ideal combination of high capacities, durability and proven performance at exceptional price points. These cards are designed for improved performance in a wide range of cameras rather than a select few. Once again, the SanDisk Ultra II line raises the performance and capacity bar that all other competitors will struggle to meet.”
The SanDisk Ultra II cards are designed to be a reasonably priced, high performance solution for the photography channel while the new SanDisk Extreme III line, with its even higher performance, is for the professional photographer who needs the absolute highest performance and maximum reliability. "

[knelson]

I do not have any CF devices any longer... but for my camera that would be cool... SD I could put on all the maps for my gps for the rare change I may drive from here to New York through Canada and back... or maybe digitize all my photos and home movies and have them with me at all times.

[jkendrick]

WOW, do you know how much por... I mean I'd put all 812,000 photos of my children on there.

[JongJungBu]

You are such a pedo...i mean photophile.
I wish I had it but man that's expensive.
Plus, I have yet to make the leap to even just ONE GB on storage card.
JJB

[jkendrick]

Hey watch it- I have a photegenic memory.

[Brad Isaac]

I think it's interesting that just a year or so ago 8 gig hard drives were common replacement parts for failed desktop hard drives.
Now we can have the same memory in our Pocket PCs