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SanDisk, Nikon and Sony Develop 500MB/sec 2TB Flash Card

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the yes-have-some dept.

Lucas123 writes "SanDisk, Nikon and Sony are jointly developing a new Compact Flash card specification for the professional photography and video markets that boosts data transfer rates from 167MB/sec with today's 6.0 specification to 500MB/sec. The newly proposed specification would also offer up cards with a theoretical maximum capacity of 2TB, which would be conducive to recording high-definition video."

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  1. Please stop being so sensational by Metabolife · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They didn't DEVELOP anything. They're working on the specification to allow for growth. Nothing more.

  2. Only 2T ? by Olivier+Galibert · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I wonder how smart it is to design a spec now with the upper boundary in size equivalent to a normal hard drive. Why stop at 32bits addressing when 48 probably doesn't make much of a difference (the 16 extra will be all zero for a while after all, close to no cost on the card and negligible on the controller) and would match (s)ata that way with its far more future-proof 128PB limit.

    Flash cards seem to move as fast as HDDs, they only started later.

        OG.