The Humble secure digital or SD card
it's found its way into most of the digital cameras on the planet with their
small size High capacities and relatively low cost it's pretty easy to
see why virtually all point and shoot cameras any phones that have expandable
storage and even many video cameras use
SD for storage but SD is not always the
right tool for the job and shooting super highres photos on a DSLR or
recording 4K video that takes up tons of
space requires flash memory with not just High capacities but also very high
speeds and while premium models exist low-end SD cards leave a lot to be
desired for high-end photo and video creative professionals but to understand
the new developments we need to derail this whole video for a moment and go
back to one of the earliest standards for camera memory compact flash if you
owned a dig cam as we used to call them in the uh late 1990s or early 2000s
there's a good chance that you remember those adorable rectangular Dees that
were thicker bigger and faster but more
expensive than SD but what you might not know is that although SD won the
mainstream flash War compact flash never
entirely disappeared which isn't to say that it's aged entirely gracefully
either so when designing a high-end SD card butt kicker the powers that b
borrowed but didn't entirely copy compact flash and gave us cast a
standard that has been making its way into higher-end photographic equipment
as the name implies cast's main advantage over SD and older compact
flash cards is that it actually uses the same Serial ATA bus that your PC uses
whereas original compact flash used a parallel ATA connection like the one in
your grandpa's computer that means that c cards can perform data transfers at up
to 600 megabytes per second just like a
high-end SSD making them ideal for 4K video and other bandwidth heavy
applications especially when you compare them to SD cards which currently top out
at less than half of that speed the cfast interface itself has also become
useful even if you don't want the cards because cfast uses the SATA bus it's
compatible with SATA ssds which one enterprising Kickstarter used as the
basic idea behind the c box an adapter that attaches to the cameras and
camcorder slots and then holds two ssds
connecting directly to seast so you can record 4K video directly to your SSD
drives without having to worry about space constraints and the horrendous
cost of the more compact flash memory
cards but hold on a second lonus should I really be buying all of these seafast
cards it sounds useful but what if it goes the way of betamax or the HD DVD
good question there's currently a small but intense format war going on in the
highend video scene between cfast and a
competing standard called xqd which uses the even faster PCI Express Bus and
Promises capacities of up to 2 terabytes on a single card and as if that weren't
enough SD and micro SD cards refus to go
gently into that good night with speed and capacity revisions showing up every
few years oh and I guess there's SATA ssds themselves as well that even some
cameras do use so no it isn't clear
which of these rival formats are going to end up dominating high-end
photography and video recording but at least whichever one wins we can sleep
comfortably knowing that the camera on the end of our next Generation selfie
stick is capturing every detail of our nose pores in glorious 4K glob Gro Gob
and glob bless technology and bless Mass
drop to mass drop is the site where you guys the community say hey we'd sure
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all pitched in to buy one could we get a discount and they go yeah they work
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essentially group buys and we've got a pretty interesting one here today it's
the ultimate ears 18 Pro custom inar monitors these are different from your
typical inar earphones basically you visit an
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Ultimate Ears will manufacture what is essentially a tailormade pair of IMS
just for you sure they're still expensive even with a bunch of people
committing to buy them but you're going to get six balanced armature drivers two
high two mid to low and thanks to the molded fit a whopping minus 26 DB of
noise isolation and you can customize the covers on on them too so check out
the link in the video description if you want to learn more about this particular
drop and just to check out Mass drop in general because they've got a whack ton
of cool stuff everything from like knives to keyboards to well high-end
audio equipment just like this so I
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