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128TB SD Cards Are Coming (theverge.com)
A new card specification has been announced by the SD Association that should let you store your entire media collection on one SD card. Technically speaking, the new card specification should increase maximum storage on SD cards to 128 terabytes with faster transfer speeds of 985 megabytes per second. The Verge reports: Right now the maximum storage space on an SD card is 2TB, and that limit was promised as far back as 2009, but still hasn't been reached. In 2016, SanDisk unveiled a prototype 1 terabyte SD card that would make it the biggest in the world, but it's still not available to purchase. At the time, SanDisk said that the advancement was necessary to match ever-increasing data-heavy formats like 4K video and VR. However, creating SD cards with massive amounts of storage is cost-prohibitive. SanDisk's 512GB SD card used to cost $800, and though it's dropped in price, is still priced around $300.
I would just like to see prices fall on SSDs to the same level as regular hard drives. SSDs are still kind of expensive.
2 years at most.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
Think pro-photographers in multi-hour photo sessions with high res cameras.
Think people recording 4K video.
Think gamers on a Nintendo Switch that prefer downloading their games.
As storage options get larger, people find ways to use the extra space.