SanDisk Launches Its Highest Capacity SD Card Yet

[exfileme]

This should be ideal for professional photographers.

SanDisk Launches Its Highest Capacity SD Card Yet : Read more

 

[dstarr3]

I have seen the future. And it is good.

 

[tom10167]

Expensive, but still competitive with what Apple charges for storage.

 

[Amdlova]

Nice Speed and Storage...

 

[redgarl]

Hard to believe that this is more space than most SSDs.

 

[matthelm]

Now if they could make that much in a micoSD format ...... ;-)

 

[Solandri]

"the new 512 GB SanDisk Extreme PRO SDXC UHS-I card represents a 1,000-fold capacity increase in just over a decade, yet maintains the same size footprint,"

2 decades ago, I had a full-height 512 MB 5.25" SCSI drive (the big one in this pic).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_disk_drive#mediaviewer/File:5.25_inch_MFM_hard_disk_drive.JPG

Technological progress is great.

 

[drapacioli]

Give it a few years, the 512GB cards will be down below $100.

 

[mapesdhs]

Ah yes, the future, yet it's in Fahrenheit. ;D Come on Kevin, match up with
CPU/GPU reviews, etc., please describe in C (or mention both).

Ian.

 

[mapesdhs]

Solandri,

512MB? That's huge! I have a full-height SCSI as a doorstop which is 10MB.

Ian.

 

[soldier44]

This is great and all but the hardware needs to support that storage...

 

[husker]

Ah yes, the future, yet it's in Fahrenheit. ;D Come on Kevin, match up with
CPU/GPU reviews, etc., please describe in C (or mention both).

The future will also be in Fahrenheit, or perhaps neither Fahrenheit nor Celsius, but instead. we'll all be talking degrees Kelvin (not to be confused with Kevin). Besides, exact temperatures are not the point in this case, as they often are in reviews. The point is that the card can withstand temps well beyond any normal conditions.

 

[10tacle]

This is great and all but the hardware needs to support that storage...

You stole my thunder. I was just about to post that. Hopefully camera makers will provide firmware updates to support larger capacity SD drives. I currently have two Sandisk 128GB SD cards for my HD camcorder. When on long vacations they fill up faster than most people would think at ~10 hours per 128GB of full 24p HD recording. And hopefully they'll have this capacity in MicroSD for phones and tablets in a couple of years.

 

[mapesdhs]

... we'll all be talking degrees Kelvin. ...

I did actually consider writing Kelvin instead, since that's certainly more natural for me
(long term cosmology hobbyist), but hey, feel free to go Kelvin if you want to confuse
US readers even more, hehe...

I jest of course, but I think articles should primarily be in common units where possible,
and toms' CPU/GPU reviews do use degrees C for tests, etc.

Ian.

 

[ayushde]

@10tacle
As far as I know.... Anything that supports SDXC cards ( Current Gen 64 gig or above) will support theses 512 gig cards as well. So if your camcorder supports the 128 gig cards then most probably the 512 gig cards will not be a problem.

 

[Christopher1]

Give it a few years, the 512GB cards will be down below $100.

A few? I would say 2 years tops.

 

[qlum]

I'd probably just wait for cheaper 256gb micro sd's to upgrade the storage on my phone. 64gb still feels lacking at times and while 128gb does increase it I feel like 256gb is the increment worth upgrading to.

 

[coolitic]

Jaws have been dropped.

 

[Draven35]

Would be great for those of us that just got BlackMagic Pocket Cinema Cameras