# Wow!  12 gigabyte flash cards are here!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-12-gigabyte-flash-cards-are-here/259077>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 9, 2004, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-12-gigabyte-flash-cards-are-here/259077 "2004-08-09T20:15:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-12-gigabyte-flash-cards-are-here/259077/1 "2004-08-09T20:15:31Z")

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Just a little geek moment I thought I’d share.

[12GB 80X CompactFlash Card](http://www.dpreview.com/news/0405/04052601pretec12gb.asp) For sale end of 2004.

[You can get 4 gig units right now](http://www.ecost.com/ecost/shop/detail.asp?dpno=422122&adcampaign=email,ewb05992)

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**Author:** ![SmackFu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@SmackFu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmackFu)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-12-gigabyte-flash-cards-are-here/259077/2 "2004-08-09T21:30:31Z")

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This is great just because it will drive down the costs of the ones I use.

Too bad the photos keep getting larger too. I remember when each one was 300k and I could fit 24 on an 8 MB card, and I had five of them. Now each one is 2 MB, and I need a 256 MB card to get by.

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**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2004, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-12-gigabyte-flash-cards-are-here/259077/3 "2004-08-10T00:18:22Z")

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Amazing. I could put my entire music collection, or close to it, on one of those. Certainly on 2 of them!

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**Author:** ![emekthian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecae2f/32.png) [@emekthian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emekthian)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2004, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-12-gigabyte-flash-cards-are-here/259077/4 "2004-08-10T03:13:09Z")

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Is there any way that you could take maybe 5 of them, link them together and use them as a hard drive? So you’d have all solid-state memory in your computer.  
I imagine it’d be slow as hell (how fast are flash cards anyway?), and it would cost $75,000, but it would still be an interesting thing to do if you had the money.

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**Author:** ![Shade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@Shade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shade)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2004, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-12-gigabyte-flash-cards-are-here/259077/5 "2004-08-10T11:29:53Z")

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**WANT!**

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**Author:** ![Earthling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/90db22/32.png) [@Earthling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earthling)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2004, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-12-gigabyte-flash-cards-are-here/259077/6 "2004-08-10T13:50:30Z")

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> [@astro](#):
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> [You can get 4 gig units right now](http://www.ecost.com/ecost/shop/detail.asp?dpno=422122&adcampaign=email,ewb05992)

Actually, [8 GB](http://store.digitalfilm.com/index.cfm?category=21&subcategory=1&productid=CFB8GB-40-380&bhcp=1) CF cards are now available.