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Seagate Announces 5GB Compact Flash

By Ed Oswald, BetaNews

January 5, 2005, 2:00 PM

Computer storage device manufacturer Seagate will begin shipping a 5 gigabyte CompactFlash card to retail stores next month, the company has announced. The 5GB card is the largest on the market to date, and will work on any CompactFlash II based device, Segate said. It will hold 1,500 high-resolution or 4,000 standard-resolution pictures on a single card.

"Seagate wants to bring photographers reliable, simple storage - shoot and store thousands of high-resolution photos without changing your CompactFlash drive," said Brian Dexheimer, Seagate executive vice president of Sales and Marketing. The company had already released a 2.5GB CompactFlash card late last year.

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By px208

posted Jan 5, 2005 - 11:21 PM

Ya know, its getting almost to the point where compact flash drives are almost becoming big enough to use as primary system drives. Does anyone know of way to boot from a CF card? Would the transfer rate be any better than most hard drives?

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By se7en11

posted Jan 6, 2005 - 9:52 AM

You should be able to set your BIOS to boot from an internal CF reader. The trouble would be the transfer time. The fastest Lexard card (80X) writes at 12 MB per sec. Most hard drive write at 133 MB per sec.

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By pgravelle

posted Jan 5, 2005 - 3:58 PM

"The 5GB card is the largest on the market to date."

I am sorry but that is incorrect. Lexar has had an 8GB CF card on the market for quite some time now. See the following links:

http://www.lexar.com/digfilm/compact_flash.html

http://lexar.links.chann...s.asp?sSKU=CF8GB-40-380

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By Aires

posted Jan 6, 2005 - 9:54 AM

Yep you're right there. [raises eyebrows]

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By pgravelle

edited Jan 6, 2005 - 1:09 PM

Aha! I think what this article ia referencing is the, "Seagate CompactFlash Photo Hard Drive".

Taken from a Seagate Press release, "Seagate, the world's number-one consumer electronics hard drive designer, announced today at CES that the Seagate CompactFlash Photo Hard Drive, with a massive 5GB capacity, begins shipping next month into retail stores across the country. The first 5GB CompactFlash media storage card ever introduced, the Seagate CompactFlash Photo Hard Drive offers unparalleled capacities at cost-effective price points for digital photography hobbyists and professional photographers that shoot and store large volumes of high-resolution digital photos. Available in 2.5GB and 5GB capacities..."

The important thing to note is the the Lexar Card is Flash Memory while the Seagate Card is a type of Hard Drive.

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