miCard = The Future Of Memory Cards?!!? >_>

[philadiophile]

http://www.eetimes.com/news/semi/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199703805

With 60Mbytes per second in throughput, miCard trounces all mainstream cards in speed. An interface that handles a hefty 2048Gbytes of capacity is future proof and only matched by Sony's MS Duo and Pro. And at 12x21x1.95mm, its only competition is the slightly smaller microSD (15x11x1mm).

>_>

whaaaaaaaaaaaat?!??! Damn, if development comes out nicely & this really is compatable with anything that's MMC (*cough* *cough* D2!!! *cough* *cough*!!!) I think we'll see one helluva bloody memory card battle break out... hopefully the casualties will include prices past $3k for a mere 16GB [yes]

[fedito]

http://www.eetimes.com/news/semi/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199703805

With 60Mbytes per second in throughput, miCard trounces all mainstream cards in speed. An interface that handles a hefty 2048Gbytes of capacity is future proof and only matched by Sony's MS Duo and Pro. And at 12x21x1.95mm, its only competition is the slightly smaller microSD (15x11x1mm).

>_>

whaaaaaaaaaaaat?!??! Damn, if development comes out nicely & this really is compatable with anything that's MMC (*cough* *cough* D2!!! *cough* *cough*!!!) I think we'll see one helluva bloody memory card battle break out... hopefully the casualties will include prices past $3k for a mere 16GB [yes]
16gb= U$S 3000.

Just think how much will cost one of 2048GB [excited]
btw d2 support this kind of card?

[Aevum]

theres alot of memory cards on the market,
the main ones are SD and CF, memory stick is still alive thanks to the PSP,
and every few months some company announces some card that will rule all others, but at the end of the day, its not about who has the best card, its about economics, SD and CF are allready well established, cheap and easy to find,

fujistu and olympus though that they could grab a piece of the market, and started using their own propietary card called XD card, lets just say they didnt do well, also, my brother who works in a photography shop tells them they have horrible quality,

so, for any company out there thats going to put out a new card,
i want

1) speed tests
2) the number write cycle it can sustain before sectors start to pop
3) list of equipment makers who will support it
4) Final Store price of the cards
5) open standart

if you cant comply with atleast the first 3, dont even bother taking them out of design stage

[ManchesterBaby]

Number 2 on your list has nothing at all to do with the card format, it depends on the flash memory chips used inside.

There are far too many formats out there already. SD seems to be most prominent but even that is confusingly broken into different physical and electronic standards (mini/micro sd, mmc, sdhc etc) with varying inter-compatability. CF is too large for most portable electronics and only seems to be used in DSLRs and PDAs nowadays. XD and MS are too proprietary, there's just no need for them really (though i don't agree with the 'horrible quality' of xd cards - they seem physically more solid than the quite flimsy feeling SD card and have a smaller and more sensible form factor). The fact that "50+ in one" memory card readers exist is quite frankly ridiculous (though most of the 50 seem to be the many different types of Memory stick!)

Does anyone know the theoretical max capacity of the SDHC standard? Some websites list 32GB but if this is the case then that's piss-poor, not very future proofed at all and hardly worth creating a new standard for. There's no reason why it shouldn't support many terabytes, at least for a theoretical maximum.

Bring back the SmartMedia card i say!!!

[fedito]

[QUOTE=ManchesterBaby;132749]Does anyone know the theoretical max capacity of the SDHC standard? Some websites list 32GB but if this is the case then that's piss-poor, not very future proofed at all and hardly worth creating a new standard for. There's no reason why it shouldn't support many terabytes, at least for a theoretical maximum.[QUOTE]


In all pages/forums/etc i`ve read all said that 32gb will be the max of SD cards, but i think they try to said that 32gb in the next "few" years (2 years max i think). This year (december) 16gb will be avaible for us the "normal" people, so for the end of 2008 32gb i HOPE will be avaible for us, and they (Sd cards productors) will not stay quiet, im guess next will be 64,128,etc,etc. Just mi point of view.
Fedito

Imagine d2+1terabyte SDcard [excited]

[Goenitz]

Imagine d2+1terabyte SDcard [excited]
Imagine the boot time on that [no]

[fedito]

Imagine the boot time on that [no]

[cry] dreamkiller!

[Aevum]

32GB is max for SDHC, becuase SDHC calls upon the use of fat32,
you could excede it, but the problem is that most SDHC devices wont touch it, once your passed 32GB, you need another filesystem

[ManchesterBaby]

32GB is max for SDHC, becuase SDHC calls upon the use of fat32,
you could excede it, but the problem is that most SDHC devices wont touch it, once your passed 32GB, you need another filesystem

According to the wikipedia page on FAT ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table ), FAT32 supports up to 8TB - it's only the format program in windows that is limited to 32gb. Besides, they changed filesystem in the past (from fat to fat32) so i don't see why they couldn't change it again to NTFS, exFAT, UDF or something free like ext3... UDF (the DVD filesystem) would make most sense as it's widely available and commonly used in embedded devices already (dvd players) and (again according to wikipedia) it's already used on flash disks over 32gb...

Ah, wait, wikipedia now contains the answer to my original question: it says the theoretical max of a SDHC card is 2048GB, which isn't too bad i guess...

Gotta love wikipedia! [wink]

[fedito]

Gotta love wikipedia! [wink]

AMEN![laugh]

[ProDigit]

After 8TB there's always a 8TB Duo stick, meaning twice the volume on one disk (for those who're into all kinds of data)...

Though I doubt a 8Tb stick would be as little as microSD. With current technology, I think micro SD can go as far as about 100Gb on that size.
Unfortunately people can't always go smaller and have more data [no]