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  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

What's the current situation with CF card capacity?

The problem with the two-slot model is that the clip has to be broken and spanned across to the other device. Even in P2 and EX that seems to wind up failing (I've certainly had clips that didn't want to join back up again on both systems).

An option that is maybe possible would be a SATA RAID-0 4xCF unit. Would, theoretically, allow higher frame rates and more storage. But the catch is that the four cards have to stay together in their set to be any use, so they can't be offloaded one card at a time or anything.

I'm don't believe that 300X 16GB cards are impossible at all, and I believe they will come, but at the moment we're stuck with manufacturers' overstating their performance, and frustrating everyone.
 
I'm sure jim jannard is as frustrated as anyone that higher speed higher capacity cards aren't here yet. as it is I think we're all spoiled with what we've gotten already. in 12 months we'll probably have 128gb cards and this will just seem silly. all good things come to those who wait
 
Jeff Coatney said:
Jim is probably looking into making his own CF cards.
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They already have their own custom cards through Micron/Lexar using their UDMA controller technology developed for the 300x Pro card series. It would be too expensive for RED to actually "make" the cards themselves. Mr. Jannard has a lot of money but he'd need to give up a significant amount of his current estimated worth to get into that game. The (currently owned by Micron) semiconductor fab in my area which was originally built by Sandisk and Toshiba during their R&D partnership started at $755 million initial projected cost and ballooned to over $2 billion when all was said and done. The economy has certainly changed a bit since then so costs would be somewhat different but probably even higher if they were to try that today. Of course if RED had a very small fab line and made cards on a small scale like an R&D fab turns out engineering samples then it could happen. They would certainly need to poach R&D talent from one of the big boys or enter into a partnership with them to obtain their technology but if the cards were right, RED could pull it off. I'm sure there are several old fab facilities on the market in CA.
 
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