SanDisk 'Ducati Edition' CF cards & USB flash drive. September 2007

SanDisk Extreme® Ducati Edition CompactFlash® and the SanDisk Extreme Ducati Edition SD™ Plus.

The line-up, which was released to the Australian market in August, consists of 4 and 8 gigabyte capacities for the SanDisk Extreme Ducati Edition CompactFlash card and 4GB for the SanDisk Extreme Ducati Edition SD Plus card. The latter features a snap-open connector that enables the card to be plugged in directly to the USB port of a personal computer without requiring a cable or reader. Distinctive bright red labels and packaging bear images of Ducati MotoGP racers and the Ducati Corse emblem.

"With the SanDisk Extreme Ducati Edition cards, we have reached a new threshold of speed - 45 megabytes per second for the CompactFlash cards and 20MB/sec1 for the SD Plus card," said Tanya Chuang, director of worldwide retail product marketing for the high performance imaging market at SanDisk. "These speeds allow for fast transfers of images from the cards, and are especially useful for professional photographers in their work-flow environments." The Ducati CompactFlash card is twice as fast as the SanDisk Extreme III and is 5MB faster than the new SanDisk Extreme IV.

Because SanDisk Extreme CompactFlash cards are faster than the transfer rate supported by traditional card readers, SanDisk offers the optional SanDisk Extreme FireWire Reader, which supports FireWire 400 and 800 connectivity on recent versions of both the Windows and Mac OS.

SanDisk Extreme® Ducati Edition USB Flash Drive.
A tribute to Ducati's distinctive Italian design and engineering, the new drive has the same glossy red chassis and black trim as the Ducati Corse team motorcycles. The drive offers a generous 4 GB of capacity and read and write speeds of 20 MB per second - the fastest of the SanDisk portfolio of consumer USB drives. That means there isn't a long wait to fill the drive's big fuel tank with documents, photos, music and other data.

The drive comes with a custom lanyard, as well as SanDisk's RescuePRO® Deluxe software for recovering data. The drive is compatible with Windows 2000, XP, Vista, and v10.1.2 or better of Mac OS.