On Jul 4, 2006, at 3:06 PM, mike wilson wrote: > I should have written self powered. The risks are, of course, higher, > as they are with any increase in technology. Proper design should > deal > with that problem. Replaceable cells would obviate the possibility > of a > shortened lifespan for the card. > > If it gave me the possibility of much higher write speed for a > slightly > higher price, I would definitely be interested, as would many people.
Such a device would likely have to be much more expensive and they would require different, more expensive high speed interfaces to the camera data bus to achieve faster speeds. (The bus that connects RAM speed components inside the computer or camera is much faster than the bus that connects said components to a secondary storage device.) Basically, you're not going to make a self-powered mediacard with high speed RAM that achieves significantly faster transfer speeds without building a complete IO system optimized to that performance requirement. Such a system would cost substantially more. Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
