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SanDisk SD memory card 'largest ever'

Memory specialist SanDisk has created an SD card with 512 gigabytes (512GB) of storage space - the highest capacity ever released.

The card, which is the size of a postage stamp, will go on sale for $800 (£490).

The launch comes a decade after the firm released a 512-megabyte (MB) SD card with one-thousandth of the space.

Experts believe SD cards could eventually hold up to 2 terabytes (TB) of data, about 2,000GB.

The new card is aimed at film-makers shooting in the high-quality 4K format.

The 4K format - which is four times the resolution of HD - requires large file storage. Depending on compression, a single minute of 4K shooting will typically take around 5GB of storage space.

"4K Ultra HD is an example of a technology that is pushing us to develop new storage solutions capable of handling massive file sizes," said Dinesh Bahal, vice-president of product marketing at SanDisk.

The SD card format is one of the most widely used standards of flash storage, popular with digital cameras, camcorders and other mobile devices.

While camera types, resolutions and settings vary - a 512GB card could potentially hold around 30 hours of HD video.

Cloud worries

John Delaney, a senior mobile analyst from IDC, said innovation in physical storage was critical to the future of our devices - even if a lot of people are turning to cloud storage instead.

"The thing that is driving cloud storage is multiple devices usage - which solves the, 'Where's my stuff?' problem: if you use cloud storage for everything, whatever device you have with you can be used to access your content."

But he added: "So far there's still a strong preference for local storage.

"People just feel more in control and more able to rely on being able to access the content when they literally know where it is.

"Storing in the cloud means you literally don't know where it is."

Mr Delaney added that recent high-profile security issues around cloud storage - such as the celebrity picture leak last week - would play on the minds of consumers.

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I got an 128gb card,that I got free when I brought the XT-1,still haven't used it yet mainly use 4 8 &16gb :)
 
16-32GB plenty enough for anyone. Rather have a bunch of those than an all in one that size! :eek:
 
Cagey75 said:
16-32GB plenty enough for anyone. Rather have a bunch of those than an all in one that size! :eek:
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16gb is what, about 3 minutes of 4k video?
 
I don't shoot video.

Tell you what, you lot go pay almost £500 for .... an SD card!

I'm just saying I won't be.

This is a photography, not a video forum far as I know ;) If I was more into video I'd not be using a dslr for it.
 
posted the same thing in another sub-forums. the SD card is aimed at the 4K videophographers. but the problem is 4K films need to write at around 90mb/s so for an hour of 4k film footage it also means you need to wait for an hour to download the damn thing onto a computer for editing. now this SD card holds 30 hours of 4K footage so thats 30hours of wait time while it downloads. asaide the fact that the downtime is HUGE, I am sure the heat it generates would be huge too and it will probably die after a few full capacity downloads.
 
One thing I do notice, more so than the picture quality, when I switch from a standard to HD channel of the same - is the sound!! if your tv is up above a moderate level, in my case I use a soundbar which is pretty decent - you kind of jump a bit after changing. the sound is crisper, louder and more intense on the HD channels.

4K video, aye ... I don't think I've even watched any yet! And I'm your general, up to date kind of person. And suddenly everyone is recording in this format??

My point earlier was based on photo usage. 16-32GB cards, and I mean having a bunch of them, is better security than an all in one.

Sure this new card might be great for 4K video ... but that price!
 
To be fair I would be more interested in read and write speeds. Although by having the large capacity I am sure they will be looking to open up the bandwidth of the thing next. Esp with USB3 having such massive bandwidth and the SD cards are using a tiny portion of it.
 
ukaskew said:
You should probably reconsider how you phrase things then, this looks very much like you were speaking for everyone...
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It didn't very much at all, maybe just to you. All you've added was that smaller cards wouldn't hold much 4K video .... was that speaking for everyone? because I certainly won't be shooting 4K video anytime soon!
 
Cagey75 said:
I don't shoot video.

Tell you what, you lot go pay almost £500 for .... an SD card!

I'm just saying I won't be.
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If you go back 10 years, you would have paid similar for a 1GB card. That's the way it works with memory ;).

SanDisk has begun production of SD memory cards with a 1GB capacity and expects them to begin appearing on store shelves before the end of this month.



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SD, or Secure Digital, cards are widely used in devices such as digital still cameras. The higher capacity will mean users with large data storage requirements won't have to carry around as many cards. The 1GB card should be able to accommodate around 2000 images taken at 1,600-pixel by 1,200-pixel resolution. It should also be able to store about nine hours of MPEG4 video or 16 hours of MP3 audio.

The company expects the cards to cost around $500, says Bob Goligoski, a spokesperson for SanDisk.

By Martyn Williams, IDG News Service
Jan 7, 2004 7:00
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I'm doubting many paid that much for it at the time :D

As I said, by the time I actually 'need' a card of that capacity, they'll be much cheaper. Sure I'll buy a fistful of them.
 
theurbanclown said:
Nice.

Has anyone here actually had a corrupted memory card they've taken to a specialist recovery company and not been able to recover the images?
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yep happened to me on a holiday one of the card failed. luckily i had second card.
 
Sounds great as extra hard drive storage on my laptop.
 
minnnt said:
Would hate to lose 511gb of data... :eek:
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It's bad enough losing 512MB of data! (BTW, case really does matter when talking bits and Bytes...)

Ivan S said:
I wonder how they get that to fit, that's a lot of capacity
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Moore's law.

theurbanclown said:
Nice.

Has anyone here actually had a corrupted memory card they've taken to a specialist recovery company and not been able to recover the images?
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Yup, had a 512MB card fail with an unrepeatable shoot on it - worked fine in the camera on site but wouldn't read in anything I had once I got home. Had it failed on site, I could have reshot the group. The company managed to get 2 of the group shots off the card for £20 for me but wanted significantly more to dig deeper and since the only other shots were repeats of the group or of my sister's kids, I couldn't see the point!
 
Nod said:
Yup, had a 512MB card fail with an unrepeatable shoot on it - worked fine in the camera on site but wouldn't read in anything I had once I got home. Had it failed on site, I could have reshot the group. The company managed to get 2 of the group shots off the card for £20 for me but wanted significantly more to dig deeper and since the only other shots were repeats of the group or of my sister's kids, I couldn't see the point!
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Yeah, I'm sure a proper data recovery company would have got them back. Sounds like the only thing preventing it was you not valuing the images enough to make it worth forking out.

So it seems nobody so far has lost images that haven't been recoverable, which makes you wonder whether shooting on large capacity cards is a bad thing at all.
 
theurbanclown said:
So it seems nobody so far has lost images that haven't been recoverable, which makes you wonder whether shooting on large capacity cards is a bad thing at all.
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Ooooh, I have lost images and they weren't recoverable. That was in the days when I couldn't afford a card large enough for a full day's shooting. Partway through the day I swapped cards and put the full card somewhere 'safe'. Never saw it again.

That's why I hate trying to juggle several baskets of eggs.
 
It is pretty incredible to think how far storage capacity in SD cards has come over the previous years. Imagine losing so much data .... Ahh!
 
b0redj0rd said:
It is pretty incredible to think how far storage capacity in SD cards has come over the previous years. Imagine losing so much data .... Ahh!
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Yup. And back in 1999 similarly far-thinking pundits were pulling their hair out at the terrifying image of losing 340MB of data is their Microdrive packed it in.
 
theurbanclown said:
Yeah, I'm sure a proper data recovery company would have got them back. Sounds like the only thing preventing it was you not valuing the images enough to make it worth forking out.

So it seems nobody so far has lost images that haven't been recoverable, which makes you wonder whether shooting on large capacity cards is a bad thing at all.
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Probably, yes but data recovery costs seem to be based on the capacity of the media rather than the actual files and I dread to think how much a 512GB card would cost to scan and recover!
 
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