A 200GB MicroSD Card!
 

SanDisk has come up with a very high capacity microSD card - 200GB!
World's highest capacity microSD card unveiled by SanDisk

I know that in a few years this will seem really silly and 200GB microSDs will be given away at trade shows! But today its a big deal...

The first major upgrade I remember buying for a computer to try and keep it 'up with the times' was adding a second hard drive to my circa~1993 Packard Bell computer.

The operating system was on a 100 MB drive I believe, and I spent a boat load of money to buy a hard drive - can't remember if it was a 3.5" or a 5" drive at that time... that was 600 MB.

I thought... six times as much memory... I'll never fill that up. It was full within a few months.

I saw that earlier.

The "Extreme" is way faster than the "Ultra". I'm waiting for the faster chip.

Absolutely insane. What are they doing on regular sd cards now? I remember ponying up and paying ~$60 for a 2gb card for an MP3 player....

I showed the link to my son and this was his reaction... :rolleyes:

"The actual f**k.

It is inconceivable to me that a fifth of a terabyte fits on a pinky nail."

That's a lot of data to lose if something goes wrong. I never use more than a 16gb card for that reason..

Next you'll be telling us they have radios with moving pictures and cars that go 100mph.

Are most cameras and other devices even able to address 200GB?

I need one of those for my macbook Air.

Back in the day before Control Data was bought several times and ended up as Seagate they came in out shop with an old microwave sized hard drive and a huge box of floppies and a 5.25 inch one gig hard drive and one of the first prototype 3.5 inch one GIG hard drives. We put it all in the studio to photograph one the comparisons of just what one gigabyte was. The one gig hard drive eventually went on sale for almost two grand. I can remember at the time I had a 32 MB hard drive and I could only dream of an entire gigabyte.

Now my cell phone has 64 gig of memory. My home computer has terabyte of mirrored drives. I download the Windows updates yesterday for one computer and it was over 300 MB. It was years before I even had a 300 MB hard drive on my system and now we download that as a freakin update!

It is really astonishing how far we have come in a few years. My 4.77 MHz 8086 running Dos 1.1 was a start point, and so many orders of magnitude away from my i7 8 core CPU and 32 gig of memory.

I just bought a dashcam that came with an 8gb microSD card and was showing my dad what 800x the memory of our family's first computer looks like today. That original Epson my mom bought back in 1993ish was over $3000.

Now with an engineer son (me) and MBA daughter (sister) she knows it really paid off...and would like to be paid back, with interest and inflation:D

Canon just released its 5D S, a camera with a 50 megapixel sensor. If you're a pro shooting in RAW mode, a card like that might just be handy, even if storing images of that size will burn disc space like crazy.

With the developing memeristor technology, data storage ability and crazy materials...the next 10 years will be pure magic!

Yes indeed. Let's hope all of that tech is put to good use.

The big challenge is becoming the sheer time needed to copy that much data from one spot to a secure long term storage deice. 200Gig is great but you can't expect to keep it on there for 5 years. Transfer it to a magnetic spinning hard drive array and it sakes a while. Have a dozen of those cards to copy and you are spending a lot of time copying and verifying data.

Mine can do a 128gb card no problem. Don't know about this. Would be sweet tho.

I'd have to buy another drobo to go with it.

I promise I will not use it to achieve my evil goals. Really. I promise.

I have a 256GB standard SD card as my secondary and backup drive in my laptop.

[QUOTE=GH85Carrera;8526881]Back in the day my 4.77 MHz 8086 running Dos 1.1 was a start point[QUOTE]




ah yes that brought back memories of pre 286.


you could also boot a IBM PC off a 360K 5 1/4" floppy with only 3 files on it..........autoexec.bat, config.sys, and sys.ini


amber or green monitor? you got your choice.

and a 4 pin printer head with tractor feed paper.


then came CGA and EGA graphics, oh oh 4 or 16 colors now! and 286/386/486 cpus.



the C:> prompt was your friend, and a mouse ate the cheese.

The first PC I purchased (won't count the Commodore 64) was a Toshiba 1200 HD. I paid extra for the 10MB hard drive. I also installed a combo card with a 1200 baud modem and 1MB of RAM, giving the laptop 2MB of RAM. I could not wait for the back-lit LCD screen.

I think I paid $2K for that, including Lotus 1-2-3. I think GE used "Office Writer". I could have had a free spreadsheet program, but 123 was better.

I still have it and it boots. The issue is the screen cracked at some point.