Sony Unveils 8GB Compact Vault

Adding to its removable hard disk drive lineup for the digital photography market, Sony Electronics today unveiled the Compact Vault™ 8GB drive. The new drive is compatible with CompactFlash type II slots, and provides a significant increase in data storage over the current 5GB version.

An ideal companion to high-end digital cameras, the new drive's 8GB capacity holds up to 2,560 JPEG images (at 3MB each) or 320 minutes of MPEG4 video, and has transfer speeds of up to 12MB per second.

The 8GB Compact Vault will be available in June with a suggested retail price of .99.