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.

Comments

Coming or not?

[manu0601]

If I read the summary correctly, we are far from having even a dozen terrabyte on a SD. Title is badly chosen.

What nonsense

[Kjella]

That's like saying with 64-bit computers we'd get 16 exabyte (that's 2^32 * 4GB) of RAM. Sure there's addressing space but it won't happen now and quite possibly never. It's probably good to keep the spec a bit in front of what's realistic though.

Re:Prices

[rtb61]

It's called patents, artificial inflation of profit margins by corrupt corporations and governments, expect patent duration to be extended probably fifty years, corrupt government and the current one certainly is that, will deliver to the corporations regardless of the harm caused, psychopaths will be psychopaths.