Kingston Digital Announces New Canvas Series of Flash Cards

[btarunr]

Kingston Digital, Inc., the Flash memory affiliate of Kingston Technology Company, Inc., a world leader in memory products and technology solutions, announced today its new series of 'Canvas' Flash memory cards. Canvas will offer three different variations in both SD and microSD cards: Select, Go, and React to suit consumers' needs.

With the Canvas line of memory cards, users and creators can choose the best storage medium available. The cards are designed to provide the reliability, flexibility and performance needed for any project. Along with tested durability, users will have the confidence to bring Canvas cards wherever their imagination takes them.



The Canvas card series include:

Canvas Select:

• Designed to be reliable, making it ideal for filming in HD and shooting hi-res photos on either point and shoot cameras or smartphones.
• Class 10 UHS-I speeds up to 80 MB/s read.
• SD in capacities up to 128GB and microSD up to 256GB available now.

Canvas Go:

• For on-the-go shooters making it ideal for filming life's adventures in 1080P or even 4K on DSLR, drone or action camera.
• Class 10 UHS-I U3 speeds up to 90 MB/s read, 45 MB/s write.
• SD in capacities up to 512GB and microSD up to 128GB.

Canvas React:

• Designed to be as fast as you are, capturing 4K video or taking stunning burst-mode photos on DSLR, mirrorless camera, or smartphone.
• Class 10 UHS-I U3 speeds up to 100 MB/s read, 80 MB/s write.
• SD in capacities up to 256GB and microSD up to 128GB.

"We are always determined to create new and improved storage solutions that meet our customers' needs," said Annette Chan, Flash card business manager, Kingston. "Canvas Flash cards are durable, high in storage capacities and have fast transfer speeds to capture all of life's memories anywhere."

Canvas Flash cards are backed by a lifetime warranty, free technical support and legendary Kingston reliability.

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[lexluthermiester]

Wonder what the prices will be..

 

[flmatter]

B&H I am sure the price goes up as the write speeds go up
Kingston React $

 

[Chaitanya]

Wonder what the prices will be..

B&H and couple of retailers have listed these cards on their site for quite some time now. Pricing is similar to Sandisk Ultra series of cards not too expensive.

B&H I am sure the price goes up as the write speeds go up
Kingston React $

Min write speed quoted is 10MBps while Sandisk Extreme has advertised minimum speed of 30MBps(V30 rating) so at best these Kingston cards are competing with Sandisk Ultra series of cards.

 

[flmatter]

@Chaitanya there are 3 series of cards go select and react and react being the fastest go is on par with Ultra. You quoted 10mbs for the select series, click thru and read the specs on all cards
edit Sandisc according to this the kingston react cards are faster

edit 2 Sandisc Extreme Pro cards are just a little bit faster but much more expensive

 

[Chaitanya]

@Chaitanya there are 3 series of cards go select and react and react being the fastest go is on par with Ultra. You quoted 10mbs for the select series, click thru and read the specs on all cards
edit Sandisc according to this the kingston react cards are faster

edit 2 Sandisc Extreme Pro cards are just a little bit faster but much more expensive

There was a reason why I didnt mention Extreme Pro(Uhs-I and Uhs-II) or Plus from Sandisk, both those cards are significantly faster and expensive. Kingston seems to be just going for value market instead of targetting performance.

 

[flmatter]

Actually they have hit both with the react series of cards and the others are close in their respective markets. 90mbs vs 100mbs, react vs pro models. Price point and performance, who will notice the 10 lost?

 

[progste]

In the last few years i have only had bad experiences with kingston external memories, low performance for high price. I am not buying them anymore unless i see benchmarks.