Sandisk announces "world's fastest" compact flash cards

When you're a digital camera enthusiast, missing a critical action shot can be embarrassing; but when you are a pro, a missed shot is costly. Sandisk has announced a new line of fast Compact Flash cards that could help eliminate missed shots. The Extreme IV cards will come in 2 to 8 GB sizes and have a top transfer rate of 40 MB/s.

A fast card is obviously useless if there is no way to speedily transfer the pictures to a computer. Sandisk is rolling out two new high-speed readers in Firewire and USB 2.0 formats. Sandisk claims the Firewire reader will transfer close to the theoretical top speed of 40 MB/s.

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