Saturday, September 2, 2006
Pretec Announces an 8GB SDHC Card
Posted by Darius Wey in "HARDWARE" @ 03:00 AM
"Pretec, the world record keeper of highest capacity flash memory cards of CF card (12GB, March 2004), USB Flash Drive (8GB, January 2005), SD card (4GB, July 2005) and MMC (4GB, September 2005), has now released 8GB SD card, the highest capacity SD card in the world. Pretec 8GB SD card is fully compliant with SD 2.0 (SDHC) specification with access speed up to 20MB/sec. The maximum capacity of SD card is 2GB under SD 1.1 of Secure Digital Alliance (SDA) specification; however, by using file format of FAT32, many SD 1.1 host devices can use 4GB SD card which Pretec pioneered since 2005. SD 1.0/1.1 uses traditional "Byte Addressing" scheme which limits the maximum capacity to 4GB while SD 2.0 adopts "Sector Addressing" scheme which is the same with the technique applied by Mu-Card Alliance in 2004 to reach the maximum capacity of 2TB (2048GB)."
Under the SDHC specification, this card offers a comfortably-sized 8GB of storage. None of our Pocket PCs support this specification, yet Pretec goes on to state that the card is backward compatible with SD 1.1 devices, and that up to 4GB can be used in such cases. If true, this wouldn't make a bad investment. Buy one now (assuming the price is right), use it with your Pocket PC, and use it with any future device that supports SDHC. Kill two birds with the one stone.
Under the SDHC specification, this card offers a comfortably-sized 8GB of storage. None of our Pocket PCs support this specification, yet Pretec goes on to state that the card is backward compatible with SD 1.1 devices, and that up to 4GB can be used in such cases. If true, this wouldn't make a bad investment. Buy one now (assuming the price is right), use it with your Pocket PC, and use it with any future device that supports SDHC. Kill two birds with the one stone.
