2TB Memory Card Spec

[Imagebuffet]

"The format of future memory cards, SDXC, just announced by the SD Card Association -- of which Panasonic is a founding member -- allows data storage in capacities between 32GB and 2TB."

Fast Company: 2TB Memory Card Spec

[Truckman]

The storage is only half the story...Check the write speed:

And the absolutely gargantuan storage capacity of SDXC -- courtesy of Microsoft's exFAT file system--isn't all: the new architecture should enable read/write speeds of 300 megabytes per second. That's ten times faster than Sandisk's current high-end Extreme III SD card.

...Ben

[Dobick]

can you imagine an array of say ten 2tb sd cards in a slot no larger than a pci slot, or maybe the front of the machine where a cd rom would normally go? That is some serious storage density!

[johnastovall]

Now a RAID 6 array of them would be interesting...

[Imagebuffet]

I think we will see 512 GB SD cards commercially available within 15 years. I figure the density doubles about every 2 or 3 years (Moore's Law). I have an 8 GB now, but 16 GB might be out there. 3 years would be 32, 6 years 64, 9 years 128, 12 years 256, 15 years 512 GB. 1 TB cards should become reasonably common in about 18 years, by this schedule, or in 12 years by the more optimistic schedule, so say about 15 years until we see 1 TB cards introduced.

[Jake]

Originally Posted by Imagebuffet

I think we will see 512 GB SD cards commercially available within 15 years. I figure the density doubles about every 2 or 3 years (Moore's Law). I have an 8 GB now, but 16 GB might be out there. 3 years would be 32, 6 years 64, 9 years 128, 12 years 256, 15 years 512 GB. 1 TB cards should become reasonably common in about 18 years, by this schedule, or in 12 years by the more optimistic schedule, so say about 15 years until we see 1 TB cards introduced.

You can get a 32gb SD card today for less the $100:
http://www.adorama.com/KGSD432GB.html