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Taiwanese Firms To Launch a 2 Terabyte Memory Card

Posted by Hemos on from the making-them-smaller-and-smaller dept.

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.

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  1. Overstated by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    They are not launching a 2TB memory card, they a launching a format they claim should support up to 2TB--big difference. The real news for the initial product seems to be a much faster transfer rate than the current SD format.

    1. Re:Overstated by BorgDrone · · Score: 4, Informative

      The original memory stick supported up to 128 MB, the 256 MB cards 'cheated' by using a switch allowing you to switch between 2 128MB banks.

  2. Here's hoping by T-Kir · · Score: 5, Informative

    That this solid state memory doesn't suffer from the non-sequential write issues that current flash media has (AFAIK).

    Added to that, I remember reading about a Cambridge university division developing their own solid state memory (don't have the details to hand, but AFAIK IBM invested money into them), point is they were estimating 2TB for a credit card sized media.

    When the ucard (or whatever they call it) goes into "Mass Production", I wonder what the price ranges are and just how much they will produce. If the media is affordable (and it works as promised), they have a chance to wipe the floor with the entire industry!

    Mind, the problem with this media, no matter who much of a data hoarder you are (like me), you'll find ways to fill it. But if the media is reliable enough, I wonder what backup solutions coming out of this?

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  3. Memory card FORMAT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's a new memory card FORMAT, not a new card. It's like saying hard drive manufacturers are making 256TB drives because they use the 48-bit LBA standard. If this standard is implemented correctly, you'll be able to purchase a uCard MP3 player next year and a 12GB uCard 6 years later, and have that card work in the MP3 player.

  4. Not the only one by spiffturk · · Score: 4, Informative

    According to the second link in the article (this one), Sony is coming out with 2TB storage as well in their memory stick format.

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  5. Re:IDE interface ? by ezzzD55J · · Score: 5, Informative
    Small yet important nitpick..
    "Supports 2 TB" could mean "uses 41-bit addressing" (2^41 B = 2TB). Current IDE interfaces with 48 bit addressing "support" up to 256TB of storage but you're not going to see that kind of density on a single device any time soon.
    It is 48 bit addressing, but we're not addressing bytes, we're addressing 512-byte blocks. So the 48-bit ATA standard can address 144 petabytes.

    So those 2TB are probably addressing blocks using 32 bits, a much more sensible number than 41 bits.