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Don’t know if you’ve noticed it, but those little memory cards for phones and digital cameras are so cheap now it’s clearly time the Powers That Be took action to maintain their bottom lines. Which is exactly what’s about to happen, as SD (and SDHC) cards will be replaced in 2010 by whopping great SDXC cards.
The upstart flash memory format will be a clear new revenue stream for Panasonic, Toshiba and the other members of the SD Association, simply because it offers capacities up to a massive 2TB. At that size and the accompanying speedy data-transfer rate, SDXC cards will also open the door to cameras and camcorders that shoot even higher resolution images and even more of them per second. (J Mark Lytle/Metropolis)
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mareo2
SDXC = 2TB? My current micro-SD is 2GB, that can send it to extinction. Maybe even the hard-disk and DVD, with a combination of flash memory cards for mobile devices and online storage service for desktops.
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lostrune2
A 2TB SDXC would most likely be massively expensive, so until that price comes down, it won't be replacing the cheaper HDs/DVDs/SDHC cards yet.
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the_harper
Bringing out a new memory format also means you'll need to buy a new camera or phone. I seriously doubt that the OS in the device will deal with a 2TB address space without upgrade, even if the card is the same shape, size and pin compatible. But I'd be more interested in the effect on notebooks and netbooks than having 2TB of storage in a music player.
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seeker1
Am I the only one who was reminded of the Bionic Man when reading the headline? It's amazing how technology is advancing so quickly. I look forward to a day when hard drives will have no moving parts, and be economically feasible. It really bites when a hard drive dies. At work we had a dying hard drive, and bought an external 1TB hard drive and carefully pulled off all the necessary data from the dying drive. We finally finished and were preparing to back up the external, when the external died. A one-month old drive. If we had one of these cards, we could have at least temporarily put the data on it, or used it as a backup I guess. Again though, have to wonder about the price.
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lostrune2
seeker1,
Solid state hard drives (no moving parts) have been available for awhile, though the capacities are still not big and the price per GB is expensive (from 2.5" 30GB for ~US$150 to 2.5" 250GB for ~US$800). Though it's good for very fast access times and probably better reliability.
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