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Taiwanese Firms To Launch a 2 Terabyte Memory Card
Krafty Koder writes "The Register is reporting that a consortium of Taiwanese firms are to launch a 2 Terabyte memory card at the Taipei International Electronics Show (Taitronics) on the 8th of October, with mass production expected to start next year.
The card will measure 3.2 x 2.4 x 0.1cm according to this DigiTimes.com report" The reports say that this is supposed to be a "new type" of card, so the details are still quite sketchy. Offical unveiling will happen in early October.
consortium of Taiwanese firms are to launch a 2 Terabyte memory card
I didn't realize Taiwan too had a Library of Congress...
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This has got to be wrong.
I'm going to put this down w/ the flying car and Duke Nukem Forever.
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Smaller than many stamps.
I wonder if anyone has tried to send a memory card like this underneath a postage stamp.
It's not like the card couldn't hold up to the rigors of the Postal Service.
Don't you guys know what will happen?!?! If a memory card in a small enough form factor reaches 2TB, the universe will implode on itself! That's just too small for that much data!
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Price range?
Temperature range?
Storage lifetime?
Erase speed?
Write speed?
Write cycle (wear) lifetime?
Bit error rate?
Power consumption?
Radiation decay?
Let's suppose this thing requires JFFS for wear leveling purposes. Mount time at this capacity range: approximately one year.
We have someone in our office here, who goes by the wholy inappropriate title "VP of Research and Development" who is *constantly* finding new technologies we should exploit, based on N-k impressive paramters.
In any case, if these ucards pan out, ucard over carrier pigeon would probably put Iridium out of business once and for all. Now if someone could breed a homesick Albatross we could stop laying all this expensive fiber optic cable as well.
For my porn collection.
Yeah, but can you imagine the time required for "shred /dev/sda" ?
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You have some serious latency challenges to solve before I use your homesick albatross for online gaming.
In soviet russia stale jokes recycle you!
Dense portable storage sounds neat, but I think the form-factor needs to be reconsidered -- what if you lost it? All of your hard drives, CDs and DVDs would be gone in a flash! What's the bandwidth of a 2TB flash card slipping between the bars of a sewer drain and floating out to the waste treatment plant? Maybe they should call it a *flush* card? (Sorry -- bad pun.)
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Nothing to see here, are you insane. Depending on what the price of the card is, this could potentially replace hard drives in many applications. If its cheap enough, perhaps even in Laptops. Its transfer speed is fast enough to replace a hard drive, plus, being solid state, it won't develop mechanical problems. It'll take up substantially less space and consume less power. In this age of miniaturization, and subsequent problems with power consumption and heat output, it seems a great solution.
Perhaps there is nothing to see here, you might want to move along. Is that better?
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The US and the rest of the world would boycott the living daylights out of them, and after we have killed 10 million prc troops with our advanced technology, sank 90% of all prc ships, and wiped their airforce out, they'd have a hard time containing the internal backlash.
Notice how there are so many intelligent, dillegent, hardworking Chinese babes and dudes moving into high positions over the past 20 years? And how China reorganised it's domestic and foreign policy to open to world trade/policy 20 years ago? This is no co-incidence! These Chinese in powerful businesses the world over are infact SPIES AND AGENTS. They either came over in their youth, assigned from the PRC and underground agents in what was British Hong Kong, or their parents and grandparents were communist sleepers waiting for the signal.
Be afraid, Chinese agents already control key positions in multinational companies, including the bulk of technology companies, and the US government. If America ever acts aggressively towards China these agents will pull out the knives and use their Kung Fu skills to kill all top US officials, thus claiming the US for China.
You have been warned. I recommend heading into the hills, building a nice bunker and stockpiling a few beans and guns.