Toshiba to ship 32-Gbyte SDHC UHS-I cards with 95/80-Mbytes/sec read/write speeds

If you’re a rabid fan of Canon dSLRs, you already know of the many controversial decisions made by Canon when it recently introduced the Canon 60D camera, the latest in a long line of xxD digital SLR cameras. Among the changes, Canon eliminated the use of Compact Flash (CF) cards in the 60D and added an SD card slot instead. This decision (among others) caused quite a cry to arise from Canon aficionados, who feel that the slower memory bandwidth of SD cards will impair the Canon 60D’s ability to quickly drain a filled image buffer while shooting bursts of RAW images. The Canon 60D will be available at the end of September and Toshiba will be fixing this particular problem for the 60D by November, when the company plans to initiate volume production and ship 32-Gbyte SDHC UHS-I cards that conform to the SD Memory Card Standard Ver. 3.0 (SD 3.0), UHS104. These SDHC UHS-I cards feature 95/80-Mbytes/sec maximum read/write transfer rates, which put them very close to or equal to the maximum transfer rates of high-performance CF cards. Toshiba plans to ship 32-Gbyte SDHC UHS-I cards in November and 8- and 16-Gbyte cards in December. Toshiba’s also plans to ship microSDHC UHS-I cards in November, which comply with SD 3.0, UHS50, with maximum read/write speeds of 40/20 Mbytes/sec. (Press release here.)