Sandisk packs in 200GB in the size of a MicroSD Card

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[h=1]Sandisk packs in 200GB in the size of a MicroSD Card[/h] March 2, 2015 Kishore Ganesh Leave a comment

Flash Memory is experiencing rapid change, and after the first few years of being stuck within the limits of Megabytes, we are now moving at a pace of gigabytes, and the flash memory space is chock full of innovation.

Last year, at MWC 2014, Sandisk unveiled its 128GB Card, which seemed impressive at the time, and now, Sandisk has announced a 200GB microSD Card with is downright impressive and it is unbelievable that Sandisk has been able to pack so much space in such a small package.

It was only in the last decade that SSDs started hitting this capacity, and within a span of a few years we are seeing such high capacities in such small spaces.

It is a class 10 microSD Card, capable of transferring at the rate of 90mb/s, meaning upto 1200 photos per minute. It will cost $399, so it is obviously only a proof of concept for now, and within a year or two we may see prices come down to affordable levels.

What do you think? Will we ever be able to fit a Terabyte into the size of a MicroSD Card?


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[biswa]

Vgane ji,

What would be a good use case for this technology?

 

[auh]

I would tend to think that the size of the card itself would decrese in future so that it could be used in items like gps sports watches, google glass (if it could be used), or for military or space travel purposes when size matters...

 

[vgane]

Vgane ji,

What would be a good use case for this technology?

Nowadays mobile devices are used as camera...Increase in resolutions and video quality are fueling the demand for this

 

[biswa]

Yes, true in general. However my camera shoots 1080p video and can put a 7 days vacation video into an 8 GB card. Hence I am skeptical of 200 GB card, particularly because compression technology is getting better.

There is also less demand for local storage because of the availability of cloud storage.

 

[vgane]

Yes, true in general. However my camera shoots 1080p video and can put a 7 days vacation video into an 8 GB card. Hence I am skeptical of 200 GB card, particularly because compression technology is getting better.

There is also less demand for local storage because of the availability of cloud storage.

Yes, may be over kill...But are we not gulping more data...I remember 10 years back floppy disks used to have 2MB storage which the USB flash drive's overturned with their 8 MB storage..Now the storages have multiplied to 32MB, 64 MB to 512 MB...And still we continue to buy USB's...May be in another 2-3 years we may be using such huge storage capacities..Who knows?