2 Tera Byte Flash Card

[Guest Reimar]

The next generation of the SD card has arrived in the form of the SDXC (extended capacity.) Announced today at CES 2009, The new SDXC cards provide up to 2 TB of storage and have write speeds from 104 MB to 300 MB per second.

To do this, the new card utilizes NAND flash memory. Because of this, the new cards are said to be able to hold 100 HD movies, 60 hours of HD recording, and 17,000 “fine grade” photos. When used with your phone, it can be turned into your own media center for the most part.

This new technology will be a nice compliment to enthusiasts/professionals as cameras and camcorders both now record HD video and take very high quality pictures. The 2 TB memory cards will allow for large amounts of storage–which is even more useful for the professional on the go. In fact, it is said to be able to hold more than 4,000 RAW images–which are images that professionals take before putting them through photoshop to get them perfect.

I shoot in RAW and then convert to JPEG or TIFF–you can see examples at my Flickr. Almost all the pictures there were a RAW at some point.

The new Canon camcorders I blogged about the other day will be able to hold and essentially archive all the video that a user would like.

Additionally, if you’ve got an MP3 player that can accept SD cards–then you’ve probably got something on your hands that can pwn an iPod. PWN!

Furthermore, the cards use Microsofts exFAT system of archiving, so they should be able to work with a large number of products.

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Edited January 9, 2009 by Reimar
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[spacefruit]

Along with next generation power cells we are in interesting times.

Do you suppose this technology will be used to compete with current solid state hard drives...hold on...they will blow way mechanical drives too. Think of how much data could go in a 3.5 inch size.

Then all the storage for a PC could even slot into the motherboard. No need for comparatively huge mechanical chunks in a large PC case. Then reduce the mother board size....er then I suppose we have a (very) smart phone...so the limiting factor will be the processor. I cant imagine attaching the latest Zalman CPU cooler complete with bright copper vanes onto the back of a little telephone.

Roll on Nano chips. (Or what ever they will call them!)

Thanks for the news Reimar, you got me thinking!