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To: Jason Rooks who wrote (5595)	5/3/1999 7:27:00 PM
From: Artslaw	Respond to of 60323

CompactFlash gets leg up on the competition Rather interesting story concerning SST as a compact flash player in the Compact Flash market. techweb.com Some companies are already attempting to carve a niche for themselves as manufacturers of high-speed memory cards. At a time when the average CompactFlash card offers a sustained write throughput of about 500 Kbytes/s, SST is bringing to market cards with throughput rates of 1.4 Mbytes/s. "That capability will really come into play with the next-generation digital cameras, when the file sizes become large enough that you will notice a difference between a fast and slow CompactFlash card," Nakhimovsky said. "The bigger the buffer and the better the firmware a vendor has, the better able you are to address the memory, and that difference shows up in better performance." Steve