The venerable Secure Digital memory card is getting a refresh at CES this year. The new SDXC — Secure Digital Extended Copy — will hold up to 2 terabytes of data, and promises transfer speeds of up to 300MB/sec. That’s 4,000 images in super-uncompressed RAW format, or 17,000 finely compressed JPEGs.
The utility for point-and-shoot camera owners is probably limited — I mean, who wants to navigate through even a couple hundred JPEGs on a camera’s crappy interface? The big score here is for digital camcorders. Lots of capacity means lots of time to record HD video. The faster transfer speeds of SDXC should make video recording, and editing, a much better prospect for the consumer market.
Or you could just buy a couple of these and use them as your backup solution. Copy all your data on one, mail it to a friend or relative in another city, and you have your off-site backup.
Via DailyTech
That’s just insane, I could replace all 4 of my hard drives with one of these puppies. How long until we have SD-RAID?
No, no, no. I’m calling “bullshit” on this one. These are SD cards? 2 TBs? Terabytes? The biggest I can find for sale right now are 16 GB. Something’s wrong here.
perfect timing to make myself feel like a fool picking up that 500GB hard drive…
Add me to the “NO WAY” category. There is just no way to have a tiny SD card hold 2T of memory. This has to be an error.
Just for the lazy skepticals…
http://www.sdcard.org/developers/tech/sdxc
Just for the gullible naive . . . if those of us actually “IN” this industry had a dollar for every announced wonder product claiming to be on the horizon (but never actually materializing) we’d be very rich. Again, just watch . . . this will NEVER make it to market. CES has in the past been loaded with all kinds of wonder products that wow’d many but just never arrived. Just watch . . .
I’m with Dark Cobra on this one. The anouncement is a new upcoming standard, not a product.
Melvis has it right. The 2TB figure is a “theoretical” limit. You will NOT see a 2TB SD card coming out for your digital phone, camera, etc. The SD cards will indeed get a lot more capacity and more speed as well, but 2TB . . . don’t hold your breath waiting to buy one anytime soon at your local Radio Shack.