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- Greg2k, on 01/07/2009, -10/+196This is lame, I won't buy anything until MicroSDXC cards are available. I think a postage stamp is far too big for storing 2,000 gigabytes of information.
/s - frogman54, on 01/08/2009, -3/+100Anything with an X in it always rocks.
- Retrokid, on 01/08/2009, -2/+78No one is going to read this far down the page, BUT
The current SDHC theoretical limit is also 2TB
and the article states that this new format SDXC has a theoretical limit of 2TB, but that is not the capacity they are coming out with in March... it is only theoretical, just like SDHC...
Sorry to burst bubbles... :o) - EnjoyTheFact, on 01/08/2009, -1/+75One of the requirements for joining Digg is at least a 1TB HDD. How did you slip through?
- SohailKhanifar, on 01/08/2009, -4/+67yay for aladdin.
- rnawky, on 01/07/2009, -1/+61Now to make a device (not a PC) that can actually support a 2Tb SD card.......
- Overcyn, on 01/08/2009, -1/+55"2TB maximum capacity (theoretical)"
Is this the maximum capacity of the file system? - 007isbond1, on 01/08/2009, -3/+522048GB*
- bhp0528, on 01/07/2009, -8/+51Is it just me or are they trying to push exFAT on this device? Will Micro$oft be making that an open FAT (or Mac/Lin adopt the format)? I use Mac/Win/Lin so evenly I really need something cross compatible and FAT32 is wearing thin already.
**Crossing my fingers for ext2 support on Windows 7**
(Along with world peace). - azureskies88, on 01/08/2009, -0/+37Yesterday's excessive is today's not enough.
- gingerboy, on 01/08/2009, -1/+37In 2012 the world will end, when was the last time you checked your wall mounted Mayan calendar? pffffffft
/s - Slio9, on 01/08/2009, -3/+38Great timing! Now that I've got 400+ GB of Raw NIN footage, a SD card that can store it all would be awesome!
- Dacvak, on 01/08/2009, -2/+35While these will no doubt be retard expensive at first, they'll plummet down in price given a few years. It's a very, very real possibility that by 2012 we'll be buying these 2TB cards for about $50. That's a concept I can't quite grasp yet.
Storage technology seems like it's staying way ahead of the curve for the time being. I'd much rather scientists spend time and money developing a new breakthrough in batteries. - Fordi, on 01/08/2009, -5/+381.5 years = x2 speed / storage, via Moore
2008 maxed at 32GB.
2T / 32G = 64
LOG2(32) = 6
6*1.5 = 9
9 years before 2TB cards, given nominal growth. - Culyt, on 01/08/2009, -2/+34Well if you want to be a whiny bitch, 2048GiB is better since its specifies binary units rather than SI.
Also most of these manufactures will specify it as 2T which is 2000G, like with current drives.
☢ - jamesdew, on 01/08/2009, -0/+31I don't know the answer but dugg for extremely valid question
- rossisdead, on 01/08/2009, -1/+30It'd suck to lose 2TB of data in your couch.
- jamesdew, on 01/08/2009, -1/+28I have had no problems, just don't buy the cheapest you can find.
- sockpuppets, on 01/08/2009, -1/+27He counted his 100 gmail accounts.
- TakeyMcTaker, on 01/07/2009, -2/+26I'm perfectly happy with another SD format in the world, provided it has some reliable method of up/down compatibility, and the SD standards group seems pretty reliable on that front. It's certainly better than the other crappy one-off formats, the biggest offenders being xD and Memory Stick. I would really like to see a RAID device that can carry 3-8 of these in a laptop drive housing, with an eSATA 6gb connector. I think that would be better than a SSD.
- bhp0528, on 01/07/2009, -1/+22It's just a theoretical limitation ... like saying 64bit Vista is limited to 8TB of RAM.
- Jeebugorn, on 01/08/2009, -0/+19the description of "phenominal comic capacity...." is a play on what Genie said when he first meets aladdin
- brainflakes, on 01/08/2009, -0/+16No! According to wikipedia SDHC has been limited to 32 GB by design.
- borninda818, on 01/07/2009, -0/+16How about you enjoy the 32 (64?) gigs of SDHC you have going for you now and when, at some point, you do decide to get a new DSLR, you could take advantage of the new technology. I think 1,500 pictures on your average D80 is more then enough for the amateur photographer.
- palehorse864, on 01/08/2009, -2/+17This would be great for HD camcorders if they could actually support it, and if battery lives weren't too short. Some get about 2 hours of video on a 16gb sdhc card. With this you could hold about 10 days worth of video.
With that much you could film you're initial monologue to the camera, you're friends and family having fun, the worried looks on their faces two days later when they realize you haven't gotten any sleep, the eventual collapse and then the whole ambulance ride to the hospital! - ChromaVita, on 01/08/2009, -1/+16And for the price you'd have to pay for one, you could just develop a time machine to go back and record it all.
- ChromaVita, on 01/08/2009, -2/+16It would appear so.
- eraser34, on 01/08/2009, -2/+15Dugg for Aladdin reference.
- petster, on 01/08/2009, -2/+14You mean 4GB, right?
- deweyhewson, on 01/08/2009, -1/+13I don't think Moore's Law applies to storage capacities, only to the number of transistors on an integrated circuit.
- TnTBass, on 01/08/2009, -0/+12http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExFAT
"Theoretical file size limit of 264 bytes (16 exbibytes), limit raised from 232 bytes (4 gibibytes in FAT32)"
No, the theoretical maximum of exFat is 16 exbibytes. (1 exbibyte = 1 048 576 terabytes) - asnaturalasgas, on 01/08/2009, -2/+13You mean eighth? Eight is 8 (eighth is 1/8).
- MrSchler, on 01/08/2009, -0/+11"my god, I'm a tomato"
- rnawky, on 01/08/2009, -0/+112048Gb Raw Capacity
14Gb Formatted Capacity.
Seems about right. - Nephersir7, on 01/08/2009, -2/+13ext2? Ext3/4 would be more welcome
- brainflakes, on 01/08/2009, -1/+12Ugh, the SDXC *interface* may support up to 2TB, but we won't be seeing cards anywhere near that big for a good few years!
- tgunner, on 01/08/2009, -0/+11Ext 3 and 4 are both Journaling file systems, and are not recommended for flash media use. I run my server off of a 8gb CF card, and have found a good amount of speed difference between ext2 and ext3.
- Nephersir7, on 01/08/2009, -0/+11Im pretty confident Sandisk will try to make SlotPlayers with 2TB slotmusic cards.
- Fordi, on 01/08/2009, -0/+11And by "Theoretical", they mean "as supported by the protocol, but not yet by the hardware".
Nothing to see here. - Elranzer, on 01/08/2009, -0/+11Actually, 64-bit Vista should be limited to 16 exabytes of RAM. So be the nature of 64-bits.
- palehorse864, on 01/08/2009, -1/+11I already know the difference but I was typing this quickly at almost 5 am local, with a benadryl antihistamine fogging my head. Plus, in the midst of all the other things I wanted to do before bed, I wasn't proofreading all my silly and unimportant Digg postings before submitting them.
Thank you for trying to correct a grammar mistake. Some people really do have problems with this, as well as with "there" and "their" among other words.
Since you like this stuff, you'll get a free virtual cookie if you can tell me why we use an apostrophe when making nouns possessive. - deaftly, on 01/08/2009, -6/+16OMG YOU USED A DOLLAR SIGN IN MICROSOFT, AWESOME
- Anonymerican, on 01/08/2009, -2/+12This is the worst XKCD comic I've ever read.
Oh wait.
I really need to get my chyslexia decked out. - blaydcor, on 01/08/2009, -2/+12I go through my day getting stymied by oblique references to Shakespeare, only vaguely understanding witty allusions to historical events, and puzzling over profound quotes from important world leaders. But yet I see this dumb tag line and instantly get the Genie/Aladdin reference.
Perhaps time for one of those look-in-the-mirror-and-wonder-is-this-what-i-have-become? moments - Jektal, on 01/08/2009, -1/+11Hope you don't have Comcast.
- SteveMax, on 01/08/2009, -0/+9and increased storage in a given technology increases with the number of transistors (components technically) on an integrated circuit; so, Moore's law should apply.
However, the current rate of increase in SD capacity is much higher than double every 18 months; it's closer to 4x every 18 months actually. 2TB in 2012 is achievable if the current trend continues. - rewen, on 01/08/2009, -0/+9Not sure what you're talking about.. never had a reliability problem with an SD card. Maybe back in the day of 64mb cards..
- bustaballs, on 01/08/2009, -0/+9Well, they are already about to hit 64GB which was a fair size HDD about six years ago.
- nealyng, on 01/08/2009, -0/+9SDHC cards are actually very cheap now. You can get a 4GB SDHC card for about $10 or less, and a 16GB card for about $30. That's pretty incredible.
- longbow486, on 01/08/2009, -0/+917,592,186,044,416 bits
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