Posted 08/04/09 at 05:56:11 PM by Andy Salisbury

For some time now we’ve been hearing about the wonders of the SDXC flash media cards, and their ability to reach up to 2TB of storage. And, as evidence of the progress of this medium, Toshiba recently announced that they’d have 64GB cards ready by 2010.

This year Toshiba will be offering faster versions of their 16GB and 32GB flash cards using the SDXC format, thanks to Microsoft’s exFAT file system. The exFAT system will allow individual files to exceed 4GB, which is important for videos.

No word on how much it’ll cost or when exactly it’ll be out, but we’ll surely keep you posted.

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Posted 06/15/09 at 04:21:29 PM by Andy Salisbury

Just recently Kevin Schader, the SD Association’s Director of Communications, announced that SDXC cards packing up to 64GB of storage would be arriving early next year.

The cards, which will start at 64GB and have transfer speeds of 52MB/s will pave the way for the theoretical limit of 2TB cards with 300MB/s transfer speeds, according to Schader, but he wasn’t able to say exactly when.

The 64GB specification was sent out to member companies of the SD Association in April, so there should be plenty of ways to use them once they’re out.

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Posted 01/08/09 at 09:09:41 PM by Paul Lilly

Two terabytes of storage on a single memory stick might have been unheard of just a short while ago, but now it appears it will be a race to see who can reach the capacity milestone first. Taking a tag-team approach, SanDisk and Sony are working together to create two expanded formats in the Memory Stick series, the Memory Stick format for Extended High Capacity and the Memory Stick HG Micro format.

It's the Extended High Capacity format that boosts recording capacity up to 2TB, or 60 times more storage than the Memory Stick PRO format's 32GB ceiling. Meanwhile, the HG Micro format sports some technical enhancements, including an enhanced 8-bit parallel interface and 60MHz interface clock frequency, to make a 60MBps (480MBps in theoretical value) data transfer speed possible. By comparison, the Memory Stick Micro format uses a 4-bit parallel interface and a 40MHz interface clock frequency.

No release date has yet been given, but SanDisk and Sony have to be feeling the pressure from the SD Association, who recently announced a new card spec called SDXC, which also promises up to 2TB of memory and read/write speeds of 104MB/s. As our own Andy Salisbury points out, that's enough to accommodate 100 high-definition movies, 60 hours of HD recording, or up to 17,000 high-res photos. Wicked.

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Posted 01/07/09 at 02:15:34 PM by Andy Salisbury

The SD Association recently announced a new card spec called SDXC (short for extended capacity) that will be able to support up to 2TB of memory with read/write speeds of 104MB/second.

If what they say is true, then that means that one of these SD cards will be able to store 100 high-def movies, 60 hours of HD recording or 17,000 high-resolution photos on a portable device.

Keeping in mind that this is still simply a spec, not an actual product, it’s feasible that we’ll see products based off of this as early as next year. And with memory of this capacity in such a small package, it’s possible that this could help the industry as a whole.

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