48 GB Compact Flash Has Arrived

[Richard Lightstone, CAS]

Not trying to out-tech Scott:

Over at RAMPS, Jon Tatooles writes:

Jon Tatooles 

We just received a 48 GB CF card for testing. Amazing capacity! While it

is still more expensive than a 2.5-inch hard drive of any capacity, It

is great to have solid state medium at this capacity that is approachable.

It is a type II card, so the device needs to support the thicker cards.

Also, while it mounts to Vista, Mac OS X, and all 7-Series, it can't be

formatted as FAT32 from Vista (it wants format it as NTFS). Also, it

crashes (hard!) my Canon 30D camera. I've never seen error 99... 16 GB

cards work fine in that camera, so there must be something else going on.

Jon Tatooles

Sound Devices, LLC

http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.movies.production.sound/browse_thread/thread/50465c25a935f02f/cc1bed4cc7549708#cc1bed4cc7549708

Regards,

RL

[miker71]

it can't be formatted as FAT32 from Vista

I believe this is because Microsoft impose an arbitary 32GB partition formatting limit, even though the theoretical limit is something like 2TB.

FAT32 still bugs me. Why can't recorders start to use journalled filesystems like ext3 which is more than proven under Linux? I'm sure some really clever stuff could be done with ZFS. (Yeah, rhetorical question, I've never actually had a problem with FAT32 and perhaps a journalled filesystem just isn't worth the effort when what's around right now works so well)

With larger sized CF perhaps we'll see more marketing for DSD 1-bit recording to fill all that capacity more quickly ;-)

[Jeff Wexler]

Not trying to out-tech Scott

Regards,

RL

Oh do and try and "out-tech" Scott...  just kidding.

-  JW