Being successful in digital photography isn't just about which DSLR you spend your money on: it's the memory card you put inside it, too. Over the past few weeks, we've been testing the latest ...

A higher-performance revamp of CompactFlash could start arriving in cameras in 2009. But it's not compatible with today's standard, so prepare to toss your old cards. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET ...

When designing embedded systems, the designer has many choices to make. If you sell thousands of units, you spend lots of time designing around the most inexpensive parts you can find. You design ...

Ninety-five percent of cameras today use Secure Digital memory cards. So why do CompactFlash allies think their format still stands a chance? Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

CFast is a new, CompactFlash based card format which will use a SATA interface to deliver much faster data transfer. The cards, which will come to market in the next two years, offer theoretical ...

CompactFlash is going SATA-compatible through new CFast connectors. Why does this matter to you? Various electronics that use CompactFlash, like digital cameras, are now stuck in PATA (parallel ATA ...

The CompactFlash Association announced on Wednesday that it has adopted a new specification and format to replace the venerable CompactFlash memory card. Tongue-twistingly dubbed "XQD," the PCI ...

Now here’s a great idea from Addonics: replace a laptop’s 2.5″ hard disk with flash memory, using a $30 adapter that lets you boot from CompactFlash cards. Suddenly you’ve converted that lappy into a ...

CompactFlash - the memory card format still much loved by high-end camera manufacturers for its impressive storage capacity - has just got more impressive with the release of version 5.0 of the ...

The body responsible for setting the standards for CompactFlash cards, the CompactFlash Association, has announced the specs for the latest 5.0 revision of the mass storage format. CompactFlash 5.0 ...

We've already heard a little bit about the new and improved CFast CompactFlash card standard developed by the CompactFlash Association, but it looks like things are now starting to firm up, including ...