History (1997): Record Capacity of 240MB Into SanDisk Flash Card

SanDisk has introduced a 240MB IDE flash card in a 1.8-inch form factor. The previous capacity in the same volume was 140MB, announced last year.

The price of the new record-capacity card: $1,699, or $7 per megabyte.

Volume production starts in June.

SanDisk was also selected by Kodak so that its 2MB ($99 street price) and 10MB ($249)

CompactFlash can be used as memory on DC25, DC50 and especially DC120 (1.2 million pixels, $999) digital cameras.

For its part, competitor MSystems has launched its 72MB Flash DiskOnChip2000 in a 32-pin package. It will be available later this year. This version “will probably double next year,” said the company.

For now, M-Systems is shipping 2, 4, 8 and 12MB devices. The 8MB one is priced at $67 per unit for 10,000 pieces.

This article is an abstract of news published on the former paper version of Computer Data Storage Newsletter on issue 111, published on April 1997.