Friday, July 20, 2007

CFA Developing SATA CompactFlash Cards?

As a Sony Alpha 100 (utilizes CF cards) user I was interested to hear that the CompactFlash Association (CFA) has announced the formation of a working group to develop a specification for CompactFlash cards with a serial ATA (SATA) interface. The implementation of a SATA interface would boost data transfer speeds, enabling faster performance in cameras that capture large images and use the CompactFlash memory card format, as well as speedier image downloads to computers and other storage devices. CompactFlash cards currently use a parallel data transfer interface with a limit of 133MB/second.

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