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15 Years After Announcing the 1GB SD Card, Lexar Unveils 1TB SD Card (theverge.com)
Lexar has just unveiled the first commercially available 1-terabyte SD card. "Lexar's Professional 633x line of SDHC and SDXC UHS-I cards [...] is now listed for sale in capacities from 16GB all the way up to the flagship 1TB," reports The Verge. "That card claims read speeds of up to 95MB/s and write speeds of 70MB/s, though it's only rated as V30/U3, which guarantees sustained write performance of 30MB/s." Unfortunately, you'll pay a premium price of $499.99 for the new 1TB SD card, which is more than the cost of two 512GB cards. Still, the convenience may be worth it.
Joey Lopez, Senior Marketing Manager of Lexar, said in a statement: "Almost fifteen years ago, Lexar announced a 1GB SD card. Today, we are excited to announce 1TB of storage capacity in the same convenient form factor. As consumers continue to demand greater storage for their cameras, the combination of high-speed performance with a 1TB option now offers a solution for content creators who shoot large volumes of high-resolution images and 4K video."
Joey Lopez, Senior Marketing Manager of Lexar, said in a statement: "Almost fifteen years ago, Lexar announced a 1GB SD card. Today, we are excited to announce 1TB of storage capacity in the same convenient form factor. As consumers continue to demand greater storage for their cameras, the combination of high-speed performance with a 1TB option now offers a solution for content creators who shoot large volumes of high-resolution images and 4K video."
Call me when it's available in the micro SD size.
Sandisk has out 400GB for 88 dollars now, although I imagine they are much lower sustained write speeds.
But really, who cares about the price premium if you need these capacities in that formfactor?
We're talking about the equivalent of a 1TB 2.5"/3.5" hard disk (that costs ~50 dollars) in the formfactor of a THUMBNAIL, for only 10x the cost. That by itself is insanely impressive.
Given the scale out discussed for the next few years, we can only expect capacities to continue increasing as well. If they can get up to the 80mb/s SPI throughput speeds, I will be quite happy. That is enough throughput for all but datacenter dataset level workloads, or some particularly unoptimized games asset streaming.
Not even triple digits.
First 1 Tb card? Nuh uh, I bought some on Ebay for like $15.
Since it seems like you have to state this on /. these days, I'm kidding. Kids, don't buy counterfeit SD cards on Ebay.
Whine all you want about the utility / cost of this. It's still cool as hell.
Fifteen years, that is about 10 18 month doubling periods.
Ten doublings gets you about a 1000X increase, so Moore would have predicted an increase in density of 1000, and that what you can buy !
... at your friend's home after they returned with a full SD card?
;-)
I mean, the technology is great, but it should come with some mandatory training on how to delete all the crappy shots that no one wants to watch anyway
I'm still gobsmacked at how digital storage has changed. I got my first computer in the mid-1990s. It was someone's hand-me-down 286. It was already old, but I learned everything I could about DOS on it. When I built my first computer PC the summer before college, and I was stunned by the 3.5" form factor.
Then came 2.5" form factor, the various types of slash memory, etc. But SecureDigital... wow. One terabyte on an SD card?
Processor speed, ya, cool. But storage... wow!
These are truly wondrous times. Anyone remember when Micropolis went out of business because they thought a gigabyte of storage on a single spindle was so ridiculously out of control?
By a full two to three years
But in a much worst reliability than an SSD,
How long will you have to watch vacation pics... [sic] ... at your friend's home after they returned with a full SD card?
I mean, the technology is great, but it should come with some mandatory training on how to delete all the crappy shots that no one wants to watch anyway ;-)
Pictures? 1 TB is enough to store over a week of 1080p video. You can watch the entire vacation!
So many different options and this manufacturer and that manufacturer hyping this and that and the other thing. And if it is this price then one thing and this price then another. I agree when you say it is all ridiculous, after all every day we just sit and save the same old files to whatever folders we always saved them to. And there is always some utility ready to help you optimize this that or the other thing. At the end of the day all you really need is a coke and a smile, WiFi, an an emergency thumb drive to carry around. They think all those ads will get us to behave differently when we walk into the store.
Well, a high-res file (40-50 MP) is typically around 50MB compressed RAW. So ~20000 photos. If you say maybe 3 seconds between each in a slide show that's ~60000 seconds so ~17 hours. Though honestly if you're doing photos you can just offload those any time you take a little break. I expect this will be used for extremely long continuous video shoots, like if you're doing 400 Mbps all-I like some cameras offer now you'll get ~6 hours. But let's be honest, you're either going to flee or strangle them in the end so just bail immediately.
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Their SD cards are absolute garbage, half of them are DOA, the rest have about a 1 week life-span before corrupted/destroyed.
Just like the 256GiB and 512GiB cards changed usage patterns for those of us who snap a lot of photos, so will this card. Like you say, you can take long high-quality recordings, and still fit a lot of still images.
For example, a few years back, I filled up multiple 128GiB cards with photos and recordings of the 6 Hours of Spa weekend(and let me tell you, trying to take good photos of cars going 250km/h or more is not easy, hence a lot of 15-20 image sequences etc). Just needing 1 card for the weekend will be nice.
Why takes the bet about petabyte in 2033?
At 8K? Thats not going to be a very long clip :)
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
"much worst"???
Like your English?
I'd like to have, for my car, my whole CD collection on a card or two - not as dumbed down mp3s or other formats, even lossless, but as full CDs.
Or for music at my job. Or house.
I don't know anybody who wants their car to connect to the Internet.
Screw streaming. Local only.
Now, couldya increase that to a petabyte, please? :-)
Thirty years ago, we had 1.44MB floppies. This fifteen year to 1024-fold increase correspondence holds up.
What's the fuss. They have been selling 1TB cards on ebay and amazon for years now,.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
the time required to backup a drive is getting longer and longer
so really the drives are getting worse and worse
sustained write performance of 30MB/s
and
a solution for content creators who shoot large volumes of high-resolution images and 4K video.
Seems mutually exclusive, somehow.
The more you put on your storage device, the more you have to lose when it crashes.
So, add to the $500 cost of this device another $1,000 for your minimal backup system. Back up to a 2nd unit, then back that up to another. Keep them up-to-date. Keep one in a safe remote location. Reasonably safe if they are SanDisk brand. What? Oops!
...omphaloskepsis often...
>"As consumers continue to demand greater storage for their cameras, the combination of high-speed performance with a 1TB option now offers a solution for content creators who shoot large volumes of high-resolution images and 4K video."
The better use case is for laptops, tablets, phones and such devices, not cameras. Photographs- a cheap 128GB SD card stores many, many hundreds of super-high quality photos, which you then unload onto a computer and wipe. Far more capacity than anyone would ever want to trust or need on a single card (which is also easy to change). Even the most elaborate weddings I can make due with two 128GB cards. Video- perhaps, but 256GB is a LOT of 1080P footage. Again, how much to trust on one card? But on a laptop, it makes a wonderful media card to have lots of replaceable (not critical) music, photos, movies, etc, and also for backup. You can only mount and keep a single card active and "home" in the device, so having a lot of space is very useful.
In Europe, "slow TV" is a thing. You see a travel show that consists of a ride on a canal boat or a back-country bus that unfolds in full, as though you were there, with nothing left out. Some programs of this type have run for days, like the 132-hour voyage of a Hurtigruten ferry along the entire coast of Norway. People generally do not sit and watch the whole thing, but use shows like this as life background.
With SD cards of this capacity, it becomes possible for anyone to record extended life events in real time. On social media, watch for selfies to be replaced by "My Entire Week at Disney World" and "My Job at the Amazon Warehouse."
The UHS-I is just a speed class. And here I was thinking that after regular SD, SDHC and SDXC they just had to make yet another backwards-incompatible revision.
Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.
M.2 SSD are not much larger than a (full) SD card. Prices are similar to the SD cards. Reliability is incredibly much better on SSDs. I don't see why people don't put M.2 slots on phones, cameras, etc.
Pretty much all M.2 SSDs from major brands are M.2 2280 , so slightly narrower than a SD card but over twice as long.
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But if you're only watching a photo for 3 seconds, you might as well use high def JPG instead of RAW, and fit 10 times as many pictures on there.
... at your friend's home after they returned with a full SD card?
I mean, the technology is great, but it should come with some mandatory training on how to delete all the crappy shots that no one wants to watch anyway ;-)
SD cards have uses outside of home photography.
I've run fleets of vehicles with dashcams before. a 128GB card can hold about 20 hours of 1080p footage, given that these vehicles are in use 10-12 hours a day, we rely on drivers manually pressing a button to preserve footage of any incidents. It would be better if we could just keep up to a weeks worth of footage. Headless servers are another popular use, have ESXi, Linux binaries or whatever OS installed on a small SD card and keep your data/programs/VM's on the SAN, making the server essentially interchangeable.
Calling someone a "hater" only means you can not rationally rebut their argument.
6 Hours of Spa weekend
... at your friend's home after they returned with a full SD card?
Not long. With cheaparse GoPros shooting 4K at 60FPS that 1TB barely gets you through a single battery charge.
What's 1080p video? The camera I bought for $300 5 years ago does 4K.
The weekend is not just about the 6 hour race, but the support races, qualifying, open pitlane, meeting drivers and other fans etc
Couple those with "ambient" TVs (designed to look like paintings or part of the wall) and you can now have animated backgrounds in your home.
I don't think Disney or Amazon would sit happy, and will find ways to monetize that (or sue you into oblivion); but people recording treks to natural parks or outdoors could be a good source of 4k+ "slow" entertainment.
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