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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."
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.
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!
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!
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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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?
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.
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."