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SanDisk's 1TB SD Card Aims To Solve Your Storage Problems (zdnet.com)
SanDisk has a new SD card which caught our attention today: a prototype card with a storage of 1TB of memory. The company says that 1TB card is necessary as we increasingly move to the world where more and more content in 4K and 8K become available. ZDNet adds: A few years ago it was inconceivable that anyone would want a 1TB storage card for their camera, but with the rise of 4K and 8K capture, as well as 360-degree video and VR, high-end professionals need all the storage they can get their hands on.
Old meme is old! XD
USB-sticks with 8 gb space for $10, that reach a laughable 10 mb/s transfer speed, because anything else would be too good. Artificial limitations to control the market.
You keep using that word...
Data will grow to fill the available storage space. My first HD had about 20 Megs of storage and was HUGE for its time, big enough to store everything, and then some. The 150 I had a while afterwards was "all you could ever need", and in the late 1990s the first Gigabyte HDs were sure to solve our storage problems.
Guess what: None of them did. Not for long, at least. Data will grow.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
All of our phones and digital cameras have a maximum SD card limit, most 64Gb.
And you will fillit with porn.
Just be throwing away money settling for 4/8k.
I actually use SD cards with a proper USB reader as a USB Stick because when the cards become too small to be useful, they get re-purposed for something else instead of going into the trash. Also you are slightly less likely to destroy the data on it if you manage to break the USB reader unlike a USB Stick which I've seen folks snap off which requires some decent soldering skills to fix. A 1TB card would be pretty cool.
On the downside thou what's this crazy 1TB SD card going to cost? I can't imagine it's going to be cheap.
Maybe I missed this, but do they give any indication of whether speeds will be on par with the other cards in their Extreme Pro line? Having dabbled quite a bit in digital photography, I've been in situations where even 90 MB/s is enough of a bottleneck that the camera can't store images as fast as it can capture them. In sports or wildlife photography, shooting 4-5 images a second in raw format, with file sizes being in the 20-30 MB range, fast write speeds are critical. I ended up ditching all of my older, slower SD cards because having to wait 2-3 seconds for each image to save (once the camera's buffer was full) is painful.
Call me when this is in micro sd form. What handheld devices use SD cards? Palm OS and Windows Mobile? Photographers will see this as a god send.
For example if ones storage problems are that they have difficulty affording to buy all of the storage they need, the I think it is unlikely that this card would solve that problem.
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...but with the rise of 4K and 8K capture, as well as 360-degree video and VR, high-end professionals need all the storage they can get their hands on.
At least we know that there is an upper bound. I seem to recall some computer guy a few years ago saying that 640K should be enough for anyone. So, once we hit that, we're good!
With my Olympus DSLR I shoot entirely in RAW, using 16G SD cards. Three of these held an entire recent cross-country hike.
Just running a quick calculation, a 1T card would hold just about every picture I have ever shot and kept. But other than as a tertiary backup there is no circumstance in which I would actually want to do that, even for a single trip.
Reread the summary, please, and think about how much 4K and 8K video you shot during that cross-country hike.
I remember when I could fit days of photos on a 256 megabyte card -- at a couple of hundred kilobytes per photo. Increasing resolution, raw capture, HDR, high-frame-rate video -- there are lots of reasons to want even more than a terabyte. There are quite a few things that I'd love to shoot in 4K at 1000fps or faster. The sensor and readout/storage technology to support that is too expensive right now, but it's only going to get cheaper.
Does this mean I can have a 2 TB M.2 2242 SSD now? (Effectively one of these on each side of the board.)
How is the Riemann zeta function like Trump rallies? Both have an endless number of trivial zeros.
A few years ago it was inconceivable that anyone would want a 1TB storage card
Nope. Lemme just say now, I can conceive of a 1 PB storage card. Hell, gimme 1 EB. That'll keep you busy a while til you get to the next 'inconceivable'.
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Not if you're a dumb ass Apple customer it won't.
It needed to be said.
With more and more smartphone manufacturers removing the SD card slot and making their batteries non-removable in the attempt to mimic Apple's iPhone, we are going to be at their mercy for storage space.
God seems to send mostly tsunami and higher property taxes.
And filling my 64gb card with photos is already more than I can do, or want to do -- that's a lot of risk in one tiny bit of "eventually it will fail" technology.
But perhaps those who use their cameras for video will appreciate this, particularly when 4k is used. That crap uses memory like no still photo process EVAR.
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My only question is about reliability, MTBF. The bigger the support the bigger
the chance that someone use it as a real "permanent storage" solution...
Link to the actual press release instead of the ZDnet whoring link.
The other common "hard" limit is 32GB.
That one is a software limitation.
"SDHC" cards go up to 32GB
"SDXC" start from 64GB
There's no pinout nor SPI difference between the 2.
The only difference is a logical one.
SDHC cards come pre-formatted with FAT32.
SDXC cards come pre-formatted with exFAT, and Microsoft has patented the shit out of it.
So unless the company has paid money to Microsoft, they can't use exFAT and can only advertise "up to 32GB SDHC cards".
But nothing prevents you to buy a 128GB SDXC and :
- either install a FUSE-exFAT driver on your OS if supported.
- or reformat the card with something supported by the OS (depending on the OS: FAT32, F2FS, Ext3/4, BTRFS, UDF, etc.)
So 128/256/512/1024GB will work on most SDHC readers (i.e.: that support more than 4GB plain- SD), but the manufacturer can't advertise it because they lack the patents to the file format that is mandatory to advertise SDXC support.
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From cheap, to high end SanDisk cards, I have had 100% failure rate within 2 years. My dad has bought some SanDisk cards and I think 1 made it to 3 years. The only other card that I've had die so quickly was the 1 Duracell SD card I bought.
Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon what's the difference? All steal money from devs and control with walled gardens.
My general impression is that SDHC support implies SDXC support, even if it doesn't say so on the tin.
Yup, unlike the plain old SD card format (which was limited to 1GB due to a small number of addressable blocks. Up to 4GB by using larger block), the protocol hasn't changed at all between SDHC and SDXC. The difference is purely software:
SDHC are formatted with FAT32, whereas the SDXC standard mandates the use of exFAT. Which Microsoft has patented the shit out of.
Any slot can access both SDHC and SDXC cards without any distinction.
The limitation is at the *OS level*, and depends on whether the OS maker has paid the necessary patent tax to be able to access the logical content of the card: An SDXC slot is simply an SDHC slot on a device whose OS has a driver for exFAT in addition to FAT32, etc.
You can use a SDXC card in any device advertised as SDHC-only only simply by :
- installing an exFAT driver (e.g.: install FUSE-exFAT on Sailfish OS)
- or reformatting the card with something that the OS supports out of the box. Some Android devices and photocamera will automatically give you the possibility to reformat the card. Other device (like Nintendo's New 3DS) will require you to manually reformat the card using a separate device before plugging in.
The size will have absolutely NO influence. (Again, that's unlike plain SD card, which use an older protocol that can only reference a smaller number of blocsk)
They often come up well short of the rated speed of the SD media, but they still work.
And that has nothing to do with SDHC/SDXC format or the size.
That's basically similar to all the various UDMA mode available on older IDE (parallel ATA), 16bit PC-Card and Compact Flash cards.
There are several different speed protocols available for SD cards.
On your device, the SDXC card fall back to older and slower speeds (Class-10, class-6, etc.), whereas the SDXC could have supported a faster one (UHS-1, UHS-3) had the reader had it too.
At least that's the theory, when writing on a plain empty card.
In practice, as there are already data on the card, it is limited mostly by the read-erase-write cycles and various wear-levelling tricks.
(So it's mostly due to an interaction between the file system used by the OS and the firmware running on the SD card.
- With Log-Structured and Copy-on-Write filesystems like UDF, F2FS, BTRFS, ZFS being better than classical FAT32.
- And SD cards capable to handle many allocation units in RAM at the same time performing better)
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Actually, you can find microSD card readers that plug into the Lightning port of the iPhone. So you could in theory use a 1TB card with them on an iPhone.
And never the less, these cards target video/photo hardware.
So it will get plugged in the camera itself (which certainly has a SD card port), and very likely has p-2-p Wifi connection to directly upload the pictures and videos to smartphones and laptops.
So, for the specific use case for which this hardware was developped, Apple hardware isn't at a disadvantage.
(Though Apple hardware sucks for not having any SD port: as there's no way to extend the internal storage)
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I'm sure the MPAA would like to know where SanDisk's customers are getting all this 4K and 8K content that needs to be stored on a portable device.
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You can pick up 1TB drives or at least the equivalent for about $30 per terabyte. I assume this SD card will be similarly priced?
It won't just be a phrase.
It can do nothing for your hoarding problems.
The Pentax K3-II, K-1 and 645Z have dual SDXC slots. With this device, you can have 2TB of available storage on your camera. Maybe now I can go on a month long vacation and not worry about running out of space. Once I get home, I can stand back and watch Lightroom and Capture One puke while importing a "new" catalogue. What fun.
There are other cameras that use dual SD cards, but since I shoot Pentax, I don't care.
For the Write Only model!
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