Comments on: SanDisk's turn to announce 32GB Class 10 SDHC

The company rebrands the Extreme III line, magically turning Class 6 cards into Class 10 cards. Because they're already fast enough.

[EbsanU]

This basically solidifies my purchase of a netbook. Now I know i'll have more than enough storage for my music to be stored on my netbook.

[tipoo_]

Wow, thats a lot faster than type M+ or type H xD cards.

[scarhawk]

It's true that 1080p h.264 only writes to the card at 24Mbps or 3MB/s, which is much slower than even Class 6 (6MB/s spec). 720p, which is showing up in pocket digicams, is even slower. So a Class 10 card is overkill and an unnecessary expense from only the perspective of recording video. The camera will not drop frames when shooting video with a Class 6 card.

However, transfer rate to the computer is almost as much a part of the camera user experience as shooting the photos/videos. A card that can transfer at 30MB/s means emptying out a 16GB card will take about 8.5 minutes, while a Class 6 card at 6MB/s would take about 45 minutes. For some people that's worth extra money, especially if you shoot lots of video and need to empty the card daily.