Unless it’s the storage capacity of a CompactFlash card.

The new Extreme III card from SanDisk will be available in October of this year for $300.

This is SanDisk’s largest-capacity CF card ever to date.

Who would want one of these things?

Odds are video pros would use this more than anyone else. The 32GB translates to 80 minutes worth of HD video – and that’s not too shabby a’tall. And even if you’re not a video pro, if your camcorder does HD and accepts CF, this would be a worthy upgrade.

For photo use, geez.. one can only imagine how long it would take to fill one of these up.

In addition, this means everything below the 32GB mark should go down in price. So if you have an electronic whatever-it-is that takes CF and are looking for an upgrade, check the prices right after October. You might find some sweet deals.

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There are two facts which are pretty much indisputable:

1. Most of us are working with not only more files, but much larger files, than we were only a few years ago.
2. Most of us have an old PC which we don’t really have a use for.

Solution: You can use that old PC as network storage. It is easy to do.

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If you’ve got an old 512MB (or less) USB flash drive (pen drive, thumb drive, whatever) hanging around, it’s time to ditch it.

Why?

Because 1GB flash drives are seven bucks. I kid you not. Put down some pennies and grab one. I’d get two.

Want some extra storage? How does 4GB sound? Good? Yep. How much? 22 bucks.

It’s almost (but not quite) getting to the point where you don’t have to buy burnable DVDs to back up your data any longer.

Chances are we’ll be seeing 4GB and higher USB flash drives drop below the five-dollar mark in less than 2 years.

I’m going to say first that Apple’s Time Capsule – even never having used it – is a good product for the fact it’s easy and it’s got a crapload of space for backing up your stuff. A problem that has plagued computer users for years is that there’s really been no easy backup solution, but Time Capsule truly does make it easy.

I personally couldn’t care less if what’s in it is considered "server grade" or not. The fact it’s simple is in itself the main selling point.

However..

Apple has stated – quite directly – that the hard drive in it is "server grade".

Server grade, for all intents and purposes, means "not consumer grade". It should be a hard drive that is used in server-specific applications that can take a pounding.

As it turns out, the Time Capsule absolutely does not have a server grade hard drive in it.

What hard drive does it use? Hitachi Deskstar. Very off-the-shelf. Very consumer grade. Big and huge, yes, but still nowhere near server-grade HDD specs.

So anyway, the big deal is that Apple states Time Capsule has a server grade HDD when in fact it doesn’t.. unless Apple thinks "server grade" means "a big honkin’ hard drive". The term is relative. But as anyone knows, "big" doesn’t translate to "server grade" – at all.

Will this hurt sales?

I doubt it.

It’s still the easiest consumer backup solution there is.

Just as a quick comparison:

If you bought just a 1TB Hitachi Deskstar HDD alone, the highest price is $319.00.

The Time Capsule 1TB version is $499.00.

If you have a Mac Pro, buying the drive outright and using Time Machine is the better option. You save $180 and it’s faster (no wi-fi lag).

If you have an iMac and/or Macbook Air/Pro, Time Capsule is the better option because of the wi-fi and the fact you can’t add hard drives in those applications, so you have to have an external solution of some kind. Time Capsule is it, no question.

And if anyone’s wondering why I put "duh" in the title of this post, the moment I saw Time Capsule I knew from the get-go it’s not server grade. I mean, c’mon, seriously.. is a little white pretty slab supposed to have the same ability as Xserve? OF COURSE NOT.