SanDisk Intros 8GB Extreme III SDHC Card

By Nick Mokey Published October 17, 2007

SanDisk Intros 8GB Extreme III SDHC Card

If you’ve ever needed to store 8GB of data in a card the size of your thumbnail, your boat has come in. On Wednesday, SanDisk announced its 8GB Extreme III SDHC card, meant for high-end digital cameras, camcorders, and other devices that share the Secure Digital High Capacity (SDHC) standard.

Besides the ability to store roughly 4,000 high-resolution pictures or 16 hours of MPEG 4 video, the card has read and write speeds of up to 20 megabytes per second. On the SD Assocation’s speed specifications scale, the Extreme III ranks a Class 6 – the highest available – which means it can sustain minimum transfer speeds of six megabyte per second.

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The cards will debut at U.S. retailers for $179.99, no later than mid-November. Each card will come packaged with a SanDisk MicroMate USB 2.0 Reader, which sells for $20 on its own.

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