Panasonic Pro SD Cards Might Hint at P2 Price

[xander76]

I found a small article from last September about Panasonic's new line of speedy SD cards; they have a write speed of up to 20MBps. I'll bet that these are the SD cards being used in P2 cards for two reasons:

1) They're made by Panasonic (duh).
2) If you RAID 0 four of these cards together in a P2, you'd get a data rate of 80MBps, or 640Mbps, which is the listed data rate for P2 HD cards.

One interesting thing about the article is that it gives pricing for the SD cards. The 1GB card costs $243 and the 512MB costs $117. Multiply by 4 to get a minimum base price for the 4GB and 2 GB P2 cards, respectively.

Also, the article gives the product roadmap for the next couple of years. The top size of the SD cards should double to 2GB this year and redouble every year after.

http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,117954,00.asp

(Everything in this post beyond what the article says is just conjecture on my part.)

[scharky]

sweet that is definatly good news. I think a 4 gig card for around $1000 sounds like a pretty good deal.

[xander76]

sweet that is definatly good news. *I think a 4 gig card for around $1000 sounds like a pretty good deal.

Note I said minimum base price. The P2 housing must cost something to make, especially since it acts as a RAID 0 controller. That said, I can't imagine the P2 housing would cost $1K, so I'm thinking that the 4GB card will come in under $2K but more than $1K.

[alpi69]

1K for 4GB...that sounds like when i started with non-linear editing. my first seagate barracuda SCSI disk had only 4GB space and costed me over $ 2000 in 1994.

[DEATHTOPRINT]

damn. that is ashame. it's like, they think a new type of memory = a new way to charge a bunch of money for HD space now or storage. I can't believe USB pen drives are still so damn expensive... who for $100 can really use 1gb of info... ehhh... i hate slow technology. I wish i lived in China. They make everything for so damn cheap. Their economy will own the US's in the future. The U.S. seems to move backwards while japan and the rest of europe move far into the future. Hey, have you guys heard about those Cell phones in the states with cameras?

... oh wait. japan had those in 1982. j/k.

;)

[XCheck]

japan and the rest of europe??? move far into the future.Given the current demographic trends, they have to invent lots of cool and new stuff now, while they have people to invent them. In 50 years, there might be nobody left who is capable of inventing anything new. ;)

But they will probably know their goegraphy, and know the difference between Japan and Europe :D.

[Flintstone]

But they will probably know their goegraphy, and know the difference between Japan and Europe :D.

Ouch!

[Avenger007]

Japan and Foreign countries arent always the ones so technilogically advanced. More often than not they actually just improve upon technology which the west has already developed. You see it a lot more in the automotive industry than film, but still we arent snails over here. :-/