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The 2 Terabyte Memory Card
DigiTimes are running a story about yet another new memory card format, confusingly named the ucard (how do you pronounce that?). What sets it apart from all the other formats on the market is its maximum storage size - a massive 2 terabytes! Apparently the new format will go into mass production in early-2005. We’ll wait and see if it can make an impression in the digicam market, and just how expensive a 2 terabyte card will actually be…(found via Engadget)
“The cards will be able to transfer 120MB of data per second, 10 times faster than Secure Digital (SD) memory cards, sources said. Additional features for the new card include USB 2.0 compatibility, low power, fast I/O and a compatible interface with existing memory cards, the sources added.”
Website: DigiTimes - Taiwan to produce a new type of memory storage device
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#1 Erik Vasaasen
The real news is the bandwidth - 120mb/s. I doubt that they'll actually produce any 2tb cards soon, same as you can't really buy any 2tb memorystick pro cards, even if that is the theoretical max size. The 2tb size is probably just the max adressable size of a card.
If the bandwidth really is 120mb/s then I belive the bottleneck when taking pictures would be the speed of the CCD/CMOS interface, and that it would be possible to remove the buffer RAM on the camera almost entirely. (Press the shutter, and fill your 2gb card with RAW images in 20 seconds!
11:07 am - Monday, August 9, 2004
#2 Mad@TT
μcard - that would be the same as Olympus "Mju"
1:38 pm - Monday, August 9, 2004
#3 Andrew
They're using the greek symbol μ, which is pronounced "mew" or "moo" (more often the former). In the metric system it is used to denote 1/1,000,000 which is kind of confusing. A terabyte is 1,000,000 megabytes, not 1/1,000,000. Sounds like the branding department got a little confused.
1:40 pm - Monday, August 9, 2004
#4 olegan
Sounds too good to be true. I don't think there was a revolution in memory industry that we all missed. 2tb and 120mb/s - sounds cool, but unbelievable. I'd say it's some marketing trick to attract investors.
2:51 pm - Monday, August 9, 2004
#5 lm6
Actually, the symbol to which Mad refers is pronounced micro, in scientific terms, and while it may be pronounced in Greek as he has written, I think one may infer that micro is more appropriate.
1:49 am - Tuesday, August 10, 2004
#6 gene
Let's keep it in prospective. CF cards have a 128GB limit. I doubt that we'll approach this limit soon (5-10 years maybe).
4:18 pm - Tuesday, August 10, 2004