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It’s been a while since we’ve seen any big developments in SDHC cards.  We’ve been stuck with class 6 cards up to 32 GB for a while now.  It hasn’t been an issue for anyone; they haven’t been terribly slow unless you’re using the cards in a digital camera and trying to take multiple captures per second.  That won’t be an issue now with Panasonic’s newest SDHC cards.

Panasonic’s newest Gold line cards are class 10 speed, going up to 32 GB.  Class 10 means they’ll have a transfer speed peaking at 22 MB per second.  That’s much faster than class 4 which offers 4 MB per second and class 5 which started at 6 MB per second.  The cards are meant for Digital SLRs and HD cameras which could certainly use the faster speeds.

The cards might also come in handy to anyone carrying a netbook.  Just about every netbook is capable of handling SDHC cards.  In the case of the Aspire One, it’s even capable of holding two, one of which gets added to the hard drive.  Faster cards for these machines would always be welcome.  It would cut down on any issues with playing media off the cards, or in running entire operating systems from them as some people are known to do.  It would have been nice to see the Gold line go up to even 64 GB for the sake of netbooks, but 32GB is still a respectable amount of storage.

The line is scheduled to go on sale in June, with pricing to be announced later.

Read [Electronista]