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

Subject: Re: [OM] New SD Memory card spec 2Tb
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:25:48 -0500
Your typing fingers are totally exonerated.  I guess this must mean that 
by the time we get to 2 TB cards our cameras will be producing 60MP 
images.  Ooops!  Doesn't sound so far wrong now.  :-)

Chuck Norcutt

Larry G. Griffin wrote:
> 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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