Kingston Debuts 16GB SDHC Card

Doubling the capacity of Kingston's last top-of-the-line SDHC card, the newest card offers 16GB of storage plus transfer rates of up to 4 MB/s.

Continuing the expansion of existing flash memory formats into greater and greater capacities (as opposed to creating new, faster chips as Intel and Micron have recently done), Kingston announced its largest SDHC card yet on Thursday, weighing in at a hefty 16GB. The card doubles the capacity of Kingston’s last largest SDHC card, which was 8GB.

Besides its storage capacity, the new card has earned classification as a Class 4 card, meaning it can sustain data transfer rates of 4 megabytes per second. Kingston sees the card as a solution to next-generation photography and video demands. “Higher resolution digital cameras and increasingly popular HD video camcorders require high capacity memory cards with faster data transfer rates to maximize overall performance of the recording device,” said Jaja Lin, Kingston’s Flash memory marketing manager, in a statement. “Our new 16GB Class 4 memory card answers the performance needs and expands Kingston’s product line to provide a memory solution for every application.”

Kingston’s SD4/16GB cards will be available shortly through Kingston’s own retail Web site and resellers for $231.