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World's first 128gb MicroSD card announced
- Thread starter EightBitNate
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SwiftDeath
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So how many books can I fit on a 11x15x1 mm card now?
Shits cray cray
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·feist·;102130547 said:
$119? Placeholder?
This thing that I used in high school held 1.44 MB:
This fingernail-sized thing holds 128 GB:
Please excuse me while I have a mental breakdown.
Used floppy disks in middle school. In high school we hit it big with the mandatory ZIP disks.
Well, to be fair, the SSD is much much faster than any MicroSD card. I wouldn't want to think of trying to run Windows/OSX on a MicroSD card.
·feist·;102130547 said:
$119 is almost reasonable, and a far sight better than the $200 (MSRP) that Best Buy is charging.
Used floppy disks in middle school. In high school we hit it big with the mandatory ZIP disks.
I still got a zip drive somewhere in my house, but it uses the parallel port so I can't really use it.
I can hardly believe it right now. 128GB in that tiny piece of plastic and metal, damn.
Used floppy disks in middle school. In high school we hit it big with the mandatory ZIP disks.
Wow. Haven't seen a ZIP since early 2005. My university use them casually (as in had slots for them). They were prob gotten rid of by 2007, if not sooner. I used to use them quite a lot back then, esp as I didn't always have a computer, and doing web work on personal sites, helped to carry around much bigger files.
No idea if I even have my zip drive anymore.
Cow Mengde
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Personally, I'm still waiting for RAM to get to these ridiculous sizes. Think about it, 128GB RAM where you can just install your operating system into it along with a ton of other programs. No more harddrives needed!
To Far Away Times
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That's a lot of GB in a tiny space.
When was the first 64GB card announced? 2011? 2-3 years for double capacity... What's the usual timetable for doubling storage density?
SSDs are as close as we're going to get, and they are rapidly increasing in size and speed.
RAM is volatile, you can't install anything on it (unless you wanted to keep your computer powered up 24/7).
SSDs are as close as we're going to get, and they are rapidly increasing in size and speed.
1,000 USD
Proprietary storage is a damn joke.
Good memories from delivering my school writings on a floppy. I remember thinking how strange it was when desktops and laptops started removing it
RAM needs power. It's volatile so when power is switched off everything is deleted.
Good memories from delivering my school writings on a floppy. I remember thinking how strange it was when desktops and laptops started removing it
RAM needs power. It's volatile so when power is switched off everything is deleted.
Backing up porn have been so much easier, before that, you have to burn all 3 movies on that one 650mb cd rom.
Willy Wanka
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I need this for my phone/tablet/3DS etc. asap. If only battery tech was advancing this quickly.
There were Ram drives making the rounds a while back.
DEAR EBAY MORONS: THIS IS THE FIRST 128GB MICROSDXC CARD ON THE MARKET. NO, YOU ARE NOT BUYING A 128GB CARD FOR $4.00 SO STOP BUYING A HANDFUL OF THEM AND THEN OPENING A CASE ON EBAY AGAINST OUR COMPANY FOR FALSE ADVERTISING/LEAVING US NEGATIVE FEEDBACK CLAIMING WE CLEARLY LISTED THIS AS 128GB AND THEN CHANGED IT TO 128MB AFTER YOU ORDERED.
[/work-related ebay rant off]
At least I could tell those people before "Yeah, it couldn't have been a 128GB since they don't exist/aren't for sale yet. Also - $4? That price point didn't seem... off to you?"
Actual Text from our 64MB Sandisk MicroSD listing:
Sandisk 64MB SDSDQ-64 microSD (Secure Digital) Card (CQP-S)
NOTE - THIS IS 64MB NOT 64GB -PLEASE READ DESCRIPTION BEFORE BUYING - NO RETURNS WILL BE ACCEPTED BECAUSE BUYER FAILED TO READ DESCRIPTION STATING CAPACITY IS 64MB
And yet we get dozens of orders/cancellations each week on eBay. I keep asking them to remove the listings since 90% of them are just going to be canceled but they haven't... ;_;
[/work-related ebay rant off]
At least I could tell those people before "Yeah, it couldn't have been a 128GB since they don't exist/aren't for sale yet. Also - $4? That price point didn't seem... off to you?"
Actual Text from our 64MB Sandisk MicroSD listing:
Sandisk 64MB SDSDQ-64 microSD (Secure Digital) Card (CQP-S)
NOTE - THIS IS 64MB NOT 64GB -PLEASE READ DESCRIPTION BEFORE BUYING - NO RETURNS WILL BE ACCEPTED BECAUSE BUYER FAILED TO READ DESCRIPTION STATING CAPACITY IS 64MB
And yet we get dozens of orders/cancellations each week on eBay. I keep asking them to remove the listings since 90% of them are just going to be canceled but they haven't... ;_;
Davis_McGee
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They've died a death because all enterprise software now has extremely good multi-layered caching built into it out of the box. Why drop tens to hundreds of thousands on a RAM Disk Array when you can cram six terabytes of RAM in a commodity server motherboard? (Not to mention the 60 cores/120 threads...). Throw in dual-redundant power supplies and software-level replication and distribution and you're genuinely at a point where nonvolatile storage becomes a meaningless luxury. It's very, very common for big web scale enterprises (think Facebook, Google) to run their high traffic, near-realtime operations purely out of memory.
The only problem in the medium term is RAM prices have gone through the roof as fabs have switched over to producing NAND for phones.
I think the real questions are
1) Why on earth are you still selling megabyte-class SD cards in 2014
and
2) Where on earth are you even buying them from? No one makes them any more.
We specialize in the older/harder to find equipment. Do you know the beer "Fat Tire" from New Belgium Brewing? They needed low capacity USB drives for the machines to make the beer with. A defibrillator manufacturer in Australia needed 100,000 128MB SmartMedia cards 2-3 years back to put in their units. Many sewing/embroidery machines from Janome and the other manufacturers only support either 64MB max or 128MB max depending on the model. We work with Roland/BOSS to get 1GB Compact Flash cards for people for the BOSS BR-600/BR-900CD recorders as well as were responsible for helping make the 1GB DIMM upgrade for the Roland Fantom G-series line of keyboards. Many people call us looking for cards they just can't buy locally for their older cameras which they refuse to get rid of "because it takes such great pictures". We sell Compact Flash <1GB and Compact Flash to PCMCIA adapters to many farmers and farm-supply shops to put in their John Deere equipment.
We carry everything from 32MB up in SD, MicroSD, Compact Flash, USB, SmartMedia, Memory Stick, xD Picture Cards, etc. We still can get regular supplies on some, we have to scour the earth for supplies on the others and buy from vendors worldwide when we can find them. People call in and share stories of what they use the products for/in all the time, that's how you learn stuff (such as the military requiring 16MB Compact Flash cards, only Sandisk brand tends to work in certain devices so they're required to carry those cards they have on them at all times in and they consider them worth more than gold).
So we sell quite a bit to people who need them and are invaluable for whatever device they use them in and they become great repeat customers... but then on the inverse you get a ton of people who think it's a pricing error or something and rush to buy it and then go out of their way to make hell over it. (As a coworker puts it "the ones who spend the least tend to complain the most".)
terrisus
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Thats freakin' tight. I feel like the 64gig capacity cards just never materialized. Back when I bought the Original Motorola Droid I did so with the intention to get a 64gig card but in the 3 years I owned that phone I never was able to find one.
I could see one of those really nice Xperia phones with one of these being a killer combo for photography.
I could see one of those really nice Xperia phones with one of these being a killer combo for photography.
LOL! This was pretty good.
PaleFolklore
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How long until 1 TB? 5 years?
TemplaerDude
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Used floppy disks in middle school. In high school we hit it big with the mandatory ZIP disks.
Well, to be fair, the SSD is much much faster than any MicroSD card. I wouldn't want to think of trying to run Windows/OSX on a MicroSD card.
Ha ha ha man zip discs, my father invested so heavily in that.
terrisus
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Did you ever try checking Amazon?
(Granted you said during the time you owned the phone, but still, did you try checking Amazon?)
·feist·;102130547 said:
I would actually be tempted for $119. $199 is ridiculous.
GRIZZMEISTER
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This news makes 64MB Nintendo 64 cartridges seem as archaic as the abacus by comparison. ; )
Wouldn't it make sense for new video game consoles to use SD cards like these for storage rather than hard-drives?
Wouldn't it make sense for new video game consoles to use SD cards like these for storage rather than hard-drives?
Nope hard drives come in far greater capacity and much better read/write speeds than SD cards can ever offer. You may have a point for non proprietary storage for handhelds.
Crazymoogle
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This appears to be a new example of stacking technology; the article mentions a 16 layer stack, but the basic gist is that the plan forward right now is to use stacking to offset the major delays (and other issues) with shrinking the fabrication process (specifically, it's crazy expensive, and can give all sorts of speed/longevity issues with storage)
As layer stacking becomes easier to do, we can expect it to fuel the capacity war for the next decade. Samsung currently ships an enterprise SSD using stacking, and at some point RAM will probably use the same general tech as well (though the difficulty and layer count will vary wildly since the core technologies are not really the same)
terrisus
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davepoobond
you can't put a price on sparks
I was perfectly fine with 4 gb and now they're forcing us to upgrade and pay more money? When will this stop? We shouldn't let these filthy corporations improve technology anymore. It costs us too much. When will we get lower prices and not better price per gigabyte
blame space
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I bought a 64 gig micro SD card a couple weeks ago for like 60 dollars. shit is crazy.
Luckily that is what I am talking about MICROmanager.
blame space
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if you plugged this into a phone would it even work? I was surprised when the 64 gig card worked.
I have an android phone and I wouldnt switch to it as a main music player even if they had 1 TB sandisk cards. There are much more compact and smaller music players out there. No need to try and jog with a phone strapped to you. Plus physical play controls >>>> touchscreen for music while running.
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