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."

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Moore's law confirmed

[Anonymous Coward]

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 !

Re:More Amazing than Any Other PC Aspect

[Greyfox]

I started out with cassette tapes on a TI 99/4A around 1983. A few years later, the Apple 2's (An assortment of //s, ][s and IIs as I recall) in my high school's computer lab had 5.25" disks. Somewhere along the way I also used reel-to-reel magtapes and 8" floppies. In my first real job, the 286 they'd just purchased for some client work had whopping 80MB drive in it, about the size of two large bricks and weighing about as much.

If I'd told my first boss that three decades later, we could store a terabyte on something the size of my pinky nail, he'd have laughed at me and accused me of making up the word "Terabyte."

Re:How long will you have to watch vacation pics..

[Kjella]

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.

I see a new online fad coming

[Applehu Akbar]

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."