Comments on: Coming Soon: 2TB Memory Cards

By: edswo

edswo — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 16:48:18 +0000

@tjktkj, http://www.amazon.com/Micro-Secure-Digital-Adaptor-2IN1-32G-R/dp/tech-data/B004AM6SRS

By: tkjtkj

tkjtkj — Sun, 30 May 2010 10:29:19 +0000

Jo :
“What if your phone can only read 8GB as in the case with G1?”

My own G1 Dev phone (original!) has always been able to use 16Gb .. I recently rooted it , and would love to find a bigger Micro SD for it .. but that’s an ‘unknown’ as of now 6/2010

By: branden

branden — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 05:43:28 +0000

alert(‘lol’)

By: Mossabba

Mossabba — Wed, 27 May 2009 14:07:02 +0000

“When you put it like that it raises some concerns, does it not? What if it gets stolen? What if you lose it?”

Maybe someday, someone will invent encryption!!!!

By: james braselton

james braselton — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 03:21:57 +0000

HI THERE ONE DAY WE WILL HAVE BLACK HOLE MEMORY AND RAM WITH INFINITY OF DATA.

By: isak

isak — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 18:59:25 +0000

sreaming musik services gone dominate the legal musik market, you dont need to have all the worlds musik in youre hard drive.

appel whont ever need that much memory capicity untill they remove there botel neck itunes.

removing spinging hardrive will be nice. the new media players will have slim look and never need to switch youre musik on youre mp3 and have you’re film colection on xvid.

By: twilightwolf90

twilightwolf90 — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 21:12:15 +0000

Too bad that you have to store apps on internal memory (jailbraking aside)

By: Haggige

Haggige — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 17:51:54 +0000

A 2TB SD card will be the death knell for streaming music services and standalone music players.

By: geoxzi

geoxzi — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 10:00:03 +0000

I see cellphone video cameras always on to record everything you do in life.

I also see carry all the info on the internet around with you and rarely actually needing to directly consult it.

in fact this thing could perhaps record so much of your life and circumstances as well as your responses it could perhaps create a download of your mind profile alleviating the need to do a neuron by neuron scan to recreate your brain in your clone.

on top of all that it might hold all the porn anyone could need. nah scracth that.. nothing could do that. that’s just silly.

By: Loren

Loren — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:12:48 +0000

With memory of this and speed large web companies can save millions a year on their electric bill. Software will stop using multiple dual layer DVD’s. Libraries will be complete obsolete as an entire countries text could fit into just a few of these.

I agree with the above statements, “Your phone will be your life”. 10 years ago you would pull out a wallet to show pictures of your kids to strangers while getting acquainted. 5 years ago you’d just show a picture on your phone. Last year, a youtube video or myspace page using your touch screen device.

Imagine where this will go once you’re not limited by the phones capabilities to access the information. Especially if the phone world finally overlapped with the mini laptop world and based all their code on 64 bit processors.

With recent battery technology and power efficiency, you could easily run a phone like that for 8-12 hours. (Which is more than i can say than my Palm Centro.)

By: Nate

Nate — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:10:13 +0000

That’s nice and all to think of 2TB on your phone… but I just don’t think it’s useful at this point. We may get to that point quickly; I’m sure some of the older users here remember when one GB was beyond anything they thought they would ever use. All I really want right now is about 80GB for my G1 tops. After that, I just won’t use any extra space.

By: chris

chris — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:13:55 +0000

@jo : G1 is confirmed to work with 16GB microSD card.

By: chris

chris — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:12:03 +0000

the sdxc spec is “up to 2 TB”. This is “spec” not physical product. It could take years past 2010 before you actually see a 2TB card in sdxc package.

It’s great that spinning media is starting to fade away but I’m pretty sure we’ll find a way to fill a 2TB storage unit and want for more.

By: Sander

Sander — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 15:10:27 +0000

If there actually existed 2TB-MicroSD cards then there would be no need for spinning harddrives in any PC anymore. This would be far HUGEr than implied here. So the presentation of a standard like this is nice, but don’t get your hopes up for a 2TB memory card anytime soon I think..

By: Nick M

Nick M — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 15:08:23 +0000

I’m sure this is just mainly a filesystem change. Currently with fat32 SD cards theoretically top out around 128GB if I remember correctly, just like old fat16 SD cards topped out at 2GB (4GB with “not-to-spec” 64-byte block size). I’m sure the biggest aspect of the change will be a switch to NTFS (or, unlikely, a more open filesystem like ext3).

I would much rather see the open-spec MMC standard implement these changes ahead of the game and take domination of the memory card away from the royalty-hungry association that controls the rights to SD.