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Samsung Unveils 256GB MicroSD Card, Highest Capacity In Its Class (thenextweb.com)
Samsung recently unveiled its EVO Plus 256GB microSD card, capable of storing more than 12 hours of 4K video footage, 33 hours of full HD recording, 55,200 photos or 23,500 MP3s. While you most likely do not need such a large microSD card in your life, you'll probably want one. The card features Samsung's newest V-NAND technology, with read/write speeds of 95MB/s and 90MB/s, respectively. It will be available in June to over 50 countries at a price of $250, which includes a 10 year warranty. Personally, I have no need for such a high-capacity card at this time, but I marvel how far technology has progressed in the last few years, let alone months. SanDisk, for example, revealed a 200GB microSD card back in March, 2015, which was the highest capacity microSD card up until now.
Get 1000 of them in an iSCSI setup?
While you most likely do not need such a large microSD card in your life
Correct
you'll probably want one.
Incorrect.
I'm not quite the gibbering moron you seem to imagine me to be...
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
SanDisk announced a 256GB micro card, but it never fully came to market; instead the 200GB was released... Since it was announced, I think they ran into production/reliability issues and killed it...
I wonder if Samsung might be in a similar boat(will have to see the failure rates etc)..
It seems like the majority (yeah, not every last one of...) of new phones, tablets, and even laptops no longer offer SD card support. My phone does, but it's a several year old model. Newer iPhones and Samsung S-series phones for example do not have SD slots.
It seems like it's not _quite_ there, but the era of SD supporting devices is fading away.
Why, I do not know, because I go out of my way to only buy things with SD slots since I like the idea of expandable storage. It seems however that most people do not, and they are disappearing from latest-gen electronics.
The reason I love having extremely large MicroSD cards is because my cell phone is essentially a mobile crash kit. I keep things like OS ISOs, drivers, and repair utilities on my phone, in case I ever walk into a place and need to repair a computer system or server. There is also a samba server on my phone in case I need to quickly distribute files to multiple machines at once over a network, instead of a single machine over USB.
I do crapcan endurance racing, the longest race we've run is 36 hours straight. Not having to fiddle with a camera to swap a SD card when you're sleep deprived would be awesome.
I think I'll settle for 128gb at 1/6 the cost.
is the standard unit. What is all this other stuff?
SanDisk, for example, revealed a 200GB microSD card back in March,
which implies this year, except it was 2015
https://www.sandisk.com/about/...
Uncompressed 4K is almost 500MB/s. So this card can store not even 10 minutes of 4K. The more you know.
These asshats http://www.androidcentral.com/... were going to do 512GB - and as late as January of this year were saying the just hadn't released them because they hadn't sold their stocked supplies of smaller cards.
At least Samsung will probably deliver. And just in time for me not to need it as Dropbox introduces Infinity.
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
I have no need for a blow job from a horse at this time....
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While you most likely do not need such a large microSD card in your life...
At one time I bought an iPad with 16 GB of storage, since the storage was infinite compared with my ability to come up with material to store on it. Then I discovered new applications like ForeFlight for flight planning. I now use a 128 GB iPad mini in the cockpit.
When I bought my current Mac (admittedly, a few years ago) I figured that 4 GB of RAM and 250 GB of disc space was ample. I bought a GoPro camera earlier this year. Two hundred fifty gigs is now nothing.
...laura
Has anybody considered making a NAS out of high capacity MicroSD cards?
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Wonder how much a Iphone with one of these will cost...
Everyone else can just buy one and slip it in their phone, not hAPPLEss users.
And yet another top of the line card comes out at $1/GB more or less. With even the smallest cards going for $10 a Best Buy due to shipping and storage prices... can we find some better way of doing this? How about a box of 10 SD cards like floppies at the signoff price for floppies at $10/box?
I'd like to have one in an abstract kind of way, but not enough to plunk down even near to that kind of money.
I actually bought an Evo+ because benchmarks revealed that the Evo and Evo+ are some of the best cards at random I/O, and thus better for running your operating system from than for example a Sandisk Ultra. I bought a 32GB when I could have probably done fine with a 8GB, let alone a 16GB, because apparently the 32GB and larger cards have even better random-access performance. It's annoying that some SD cards should suffer extremely poor performance on random writes, but sure enough, switching out my Sandisk Ultra 32GB for the Evo+ 32GB significantly improved Android performance on my Pine A64+ 2GB.
Sorry that reads like a fat block of ad copy, as if any advertisers were ever concerned with such trivial matters as random write performance; in fact, no SD card manufacturer of which I'm aware advertises any specs like that whatsoever. It's all just classes, and those only refer to sustained writes.
So far I am getting nowhere near using up my 32GB card, and don't expect to be in any danger of doing so any time soon. I have a 32GB Sandisk Ultra in my phone just for data, and it's doing that job just fine too — and I've lots of free space.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Wake me up when you make a gazillion terabyte microSD so I can use it in my Tardis.
These would be useful on ultra-cheap win8 tablets, like those Nextbook things at walmart.
They come from the factory neutered with a tiny internal flash storage, typically under 20gb of useful capacity, but feature a microSD slot.
What you do is format the card as NTFS, but dont provide a drive letter. Instead, you mount it as an NTFS junction at say C:\SDCard, then you create softlinks under there to individual folders in Program Files, and other important places.
That way C:\Program files remains traversable by the windows update process (and wont break spectacularly) because it is still native to the system volume, but the installed program directories underneath are redirected elsewhere on a per-program basis. (So, eg, the internet explorer subfolder remains native, but the Office 2007 subfolder is a symlink to the sdcard volume, etc.)
This is pretty easy to do with some freeware like symmover.
Big honking storage would turn the cheap walmart toy into a somewhat useable low-power tablet.
The storage would be even friendlier to use on a linux friendly tablet PC, as it could be mounted as /home.
For people with Linux Deploy set up on their phones, Big honking SDcard storage would let them set up a much more useful linux chroot with much more installed in it.
Big honking storage like this is really aimed at power users like that.
The prior suggestion I saw of setting these up in a raid array isnt so hot though. While individually these cards boast an interesting read/write access time, the limiting factor for raid will be bus saturation. Typically, the bus that lots of these would be put on is USB. USB has a limited total bus bandwidth, which IIRC, is 12mbit for 1.1, 400mbit for 2.0, and USB 3.0 is 5gbit. Once you saturate the bus, additional devices in the stripe only add complexity without benefit. For USB 3.0, that works out to about 7 of these cards (assuming the 96MB/sec figure holds, which it probably doesnt.). After that, the USB bus itself is the bottleneck. More cards wont make it go any faster, and the cost would be prohibitive. About the only neat thing about such an array would be the very low power requirements.
These cards are really best used in devices that SHOULD have had beefy internal storage, but dont, because of cheapness on the OEM's part.
Things like the afore mentioned tablet PCs.
These single level DVDs will hold about 450 GB of data, although not as a single item, not in such a small volume, not erasable, and less convenient to use but for about 1/12 the price. Both may have their place, though.
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George Orwell
When I was in high school people were looking at the most recent personal computer, which had 64k of ram, and exclaiming "when would you ever need that much ram?" The whole lab shared a 6 MB hard drive, and floppy disks held 360k. In college the computer I bought came with a 256 MB read/write optical drive and eventually a 40 MB hard drive. Everyone still thought those were huge.
Even a small OS like linux is a 180 MB download, and the USB sticks we use like we used to use floppies are now measured in GB. Assuming you won't need larger storage is a sure way to get yourself in trouble in a little while.
256GB ... capable of storing more than 12 hours of 4K video footage, 33 hours of full HD recording, 55,200 photos or 23,500 MP3s
This is where you see it's an ad and not a regular story ; who on slashdot needs to be explained what is 256GB?
Slashdot, fix the reply notifications... You won't get away with it...
I don't know why, but all the MicroSD cards above 32 GB that I use, sooner or later all become "locked" somehow. No, it isn't the physical lock switch, I said MicroSD. There is no lock switch on a MicroSD card. I try to write anything to it or format it, and Windows tells me that it cannot write to the card. Yes the card reader supports MicroSDXC (or at least it claims to..).
There's finally been some innovation in the SD / MicroSD arena - with a new standard for cards, they now have backwards compatible, much faster ones, with extra pins.
https://www.google.com.au/search?q=uhs+2+u3&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwit5b2PrdPMAhXDnaYKHQtUD30Q_AUICCgC&biw=1707&bih=929
I don't believe this one uses the new standard. If you're just using it to play music or videos, it's fine but (IIRC) a high end gopro would like a faster card when recording 4k 60fps for example.
I'd like to see all cards utilise this sooner than later.
I just today received a 200 GB card which has dropped sharply in price over the past month. I had wondered why, and now it seems clear.
Since the death of HDD music devices the capacity of MicroSD has determined their capacity. As somebody who stores their music in FLAC I have had to move music out of my library to fit. The 200 will do for now, but I'm glad to see that there will be an option when I need to upgrade again.
While you most likely do not need such a large microSD card in your life
In fact, yes, one would be rather convenient. But then I have no life.
(I have filled four 1TB hard drives with downloaded 720 and 1080p porn, and am starting on a 2TB. It would be nice to bring as much of that with me as possible when traveling.)
I can see the fnords!
How else can I put ROMs of every single Nintendo DS game into a R4 card?
512G would be enough, btw.
Looks like you need one of these Mediasonic 4 Bay 3.5" SATA HDD Enclosure (USB 3.,eSATA).
how they can actually fit that amount of storage in such a tiny space. Also, a photo is 5 MB in size, and an MP3 is 11 MB? Got it.
How many library of congress would fit on this cards?
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You can't be living in the same universe as me. I have a 128 gig in my 1520 now and considered buying a 200 gig but the reviews were very negative toward the large capacity. But a major manufacturer producing a 256 gig will make me spend my money! I get those pesky notices from Win 10 now telling me I am near full on my 128 gig now. As a matter of fact, I will buy one for my Surface too.
Seems legit!
http://www.ebay.com/itm/512GB-...