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Re: [OM] New SD Memory card spec 2Tb

Subject: Re: [OM] New SD Memory card spec 2Tb
From: "Larry G. Griffin" <lggriffin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2009 09:23:11 -0800
Here;s the link to the article from Information Week;

http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2009/01/ces_2009_sd_car.html

According to the article
"To put things in perspective, a 2 TB SDXC memory card can store 100 HD 
movies, 60 hours of HD recordings, or 17,000 high-quality photos."

Larry

Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> It will be interesting to know what the spec is for the file system.  If 
> it's FAT32 and very large it will probably be OK as long as you're 
> accessing the card sequentially.  But if you do intermediate deletions I 
> would think it could get very slow.  I hope they've picked a better file 
> system.
>
> Incidentally, I think you may have dropped a zero from your capacity 
> statement.  By my calculations 2TB is enough to store about 150,000 
> Canon 5D raw files at 13MB each.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> Larry G. Griffin wrote:
>   
>> Howdy All,
>>
>> Long time Lurker here.  Thought I'd post this for all that are running 
>> out of room on their 32Gb cards.
>>
>> SD Card Association sets spec for 2 Terabyte Memory cards
>> No, that's not a typo. 32 Gigabyte microSD cards are barely available 
>> yet and the SD Card Association today introduced SD eXtended Capacity. 
>> SDXC will be able to fit up to 2 /terabytes/ of data onto a small memory 
>> card. To put things in perspective, a 2TB SDXC memory card can store 100 
>> HD movies, 60 hours of HD recordings or 17,000 high-quality photos.
>>
>> Could someone please tell me what the password is so I can search the 
>> archives?
>>
>> I've just acquired a E-300, and have too many questions. I too will be 
>> thinning out my OMs.
>>
>> Larry
>> Gateway to Yosemite, CA
>>     
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