Toshiba Unveils World’s First 32GB Secure Digital Card

zippyjuan · 08-24-2007, 12:29 PM

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/storage...823225803.html
Really too big for still photography. Maybe for video or audio storage it will be fine. I would hate to have a card like that full of images and have it fail on you. Not to mention how long it would take to download and edit though that many pictures! Right now I use a couple of 2GB cards on my 10mp camera.

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Toshiba Unveils World’s First 32GB Secure Digital Card.
Toshiba Puts 32GB at a Fingertip

Category: Storage

by Anton Shilov

[ 08/23/2007 | 10:58 PM ]

Toshiba Corp., a leading maker of consumer electronics, announced on Thursday its new Secure Digital High Capacity (SDHC) memory cards that can hold up to 32GB of data and are the first of their kind. The new cards will allow consumers to take loads of high-resolution photos or even shoot video with decent quality for a long time.

From now on, Toshiba’s lineup of SD cards includes 32GB and 16GB SDHC options as well as 8GB microSDHC card for tiny devices that support the recently unveiled high capacity standard for Secure Digital flash memory cards. The 16GB SDHC card will be available worldwide from October, and the 32GB SDHC card and 8GB microSDHC card will be launched worldwide in January next year, the company indicated.

The market for high-density memory cards is growing fast, driven by increasing demand for personal digital equipment able to handle motion pictures and high-resolution images. Demand for high-density microSDHC cards is expected to emerge in the mobile phone market, as on-board cameras advance multi-megapixel capacities, and demand for music and motion pictures are expanding as well.

Customers can fit up to 8000 photos made in 3840x2160 (8.4MP, 16:9) resolution on a 32GB SDHC card, which is considerably more than anyone pictures while on vacation. However, as digital cameras evolve and improve, the demand for memory cards larger than 4GB will pick up.

Pricing of the new cards was not touched upon by Toshiba at this time.

johnnymk · 08-24-2007, 12:34 PM

Camcorders too?

renovation · 08-24-2007, 12:59 PM

wont be long now and the hard drive will be gone . when memory sticks becoming as large as this and larger .you just have 2 small slots on a box .one for the os system .and the second for all add on software . this is if they can get the access speeds up on these cards . and i see this as being possible.
the next 5 years or less will be interesting !

zippyjuan · 08-24-2007, 01:31 PM

Companies like Seagate are doing more research into solid state drives utilizing flash memory. http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/storage...823224520.html

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Seagate Plans to Manufacture Solid-State Drives.
Seagate Goes Solid State Drives Market

Category: Storage

by Anton Shilov

[ 08/23/2007 | 10:45 PM ]

Even though flash-based solid state drives (SSDs) do not offer capacities common for magnetic media-based hard disk drives (HDDs), the SSD market is growing pretty rapidly and has all chances to represent a significant amount of devices in the coming years. In order to follow the trends, Seagate Technology, market leader of the hard drive industry, said it would produce SSDs going forward.

“We are going to have a solid state drive, probably for enterprise first. We think we can make these drives better,” said Bill Watkins, chief executive of Seagate Technology, in an interview, reports Cnet News.com.

Since solid state drives use only chips and no moving mechanisms, flash-based SSDs are considerably faster and more reliable compared to traditional hard disk drives that use rotating media, moving heads and so on. Unfortunately, nowadays solid state drives are tangibly more expensive in terms of cost per gigabyte compared to HDDs. But while it is hardly possible to store all the data on SSDs, it is possible to combine usage of traditional hard drives and flash-based drives to keep mission-critical data safe on SSD, enjoy high-performance of SSD in certain cases and still being able to store hundreds of gigabytes of data on an HDD.

Seagate does not believe that solid state drives will replace hard disk drives in foreseeable future, however, it expects SSDs to account for 7% of PC storage market in the coming years. Seagate believes that it is capable of offering competitive SSDs thanks to its expertise in making hard drives and will be able to fight for those 7% of the market too.

“The storage component – flash chips or magnetic platters – are only one component of a drive. There are also chips, boards and lots of software. Hard drive has a million lines of code in it. The million lines of code make it a solution,” said Mr. Watkins.

Seagate Technology these days is looking forward a flash supplier for its future SSD products, hence, there is currently no information about solid state drives lineup from Seagate.

redcolours · 08-25-2007, 10:24 AM

yep - this is great for taking videos!

id certainly get one for a compact SDHC-capable digital camera with video capabilities. and use it MORE for videos.
actually, i do that now. i find m taking more videos than i did before with my tiny canon sd200.

beats having to lug along a bulky videocamera when youre on vacation too. all u need after this are several battery backups!

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renovation Admiral Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: You could pick up Lindsay Lohan for less than a intel 990x, and still have money left over to bail her outta jail Posts: 5,029	wont be long now and the hard drive will be gone . when memory sticks becoming as large as this and larger .you just have 2 small slots on a box .one for the os system .and the second for all add on software . this is if they can get the access speeds up on these cards . and i see this as being possible. the next 5 years or less will be interesting ! __________________ You could pick up Lindsay Lohan for less than a intel 990x, and still have money left over to bail her outta jail

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redcolours in living colour Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: above a raging c Posts: 1,739	yep - this is great for taking videos! id certainly get one for a compact SDHC-capable digital camera with video capabilities. and use it MORE for videos. actually, i do that now. i find m taking more videos than i did before with my tiny canon sd200. beats having to lug along a bulky videocamera when youre on vacation too. all u need after this are several battery backups! __________________ there are pictures, but no,nothing happens on my site.

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