SanDisk and Sony to expand Memory Stick PRO / Micro to 2TB
By Darren Murph 
posted Jan 8th 2009 7:28PM
posted Jan 8th 2009 7:28PM
posted Jan 8th 2009 7:28PM
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Nobody will ever need more than 640K of RAM!!!!
It's a joke, can you sense the sarcasm? It's a Bill Gates quote. And the joke remains funny when applied to anything using solid-state memory... because it's so damn ridiculous that he said that to begin with. LOL
Bill Gates never said that quote which is attributed to him.
@Noah
Yeah, steve is right. He never actually said it. It was misquoted and then spread all over.
no mention of Pro Duo must mean that it's not physically big enough. (my assumption) maybe we (PSP owners) will get 1TB or at least 500gb sticks? hope they can firmware update the PSP's to be capable of accessing that much space. i got my PS3 Video 9 ready to shovel a ton of video onto it. :)
Are you kidding? The requirements for that will be a PSP-6000 or so. But thats after you sold half your organs and half your family to even afford the stick..
or all the organs of all your family when you sell them.HOMEBREW galore! Now I'll actually be able to store every single bit of homebrew on ONE stick. I have 740 gigs of the stuff.
@ more bad asser:
your assumption would be incorrect given the clear mention of M2 cards reaching the same capacity... form factor isn't an issue
Holy crap! Does this mean I can (may?) finally have a portable media player that can hold ALL of my data? Hmmmmmmm, a 2TB SWEET!
You mean p()rn?!?
They going to lower the prices too so they're on par with SD, finally?
Its Sony, so no.
The only reason memory stick EXISTS is to charge more than SD for basically the same thing.
Why oh why cant we have ONE memory card format?! When there suckers started comeing out wasnt there supposed to be winner?
arghh
We can, just refuse to buy any device that uses something other than SD. Like say... Sony products.
CompactFlash/MultiMedia Stick FTW!
Will this be compatible with my PSP? If so, the possibilities are endless...O_O
Um, that was supposed to say: "a 2TB (insert you favorite model of digital media player here) SWEET!
But my iPod doesn't accept Memory Stick Pro! And neither does the Zune, or damn near any non-Sony device...
They can't accept SD cards either buddy. Your such Sony hater! :-P
Sora, you're kidding right?
#@$$@
Holy freaking !!!!!!! This is just utterly absurd. This jump in storage capacity is completely mind blowing!!
ALL STORAGE ISSUES ARE OFFICIALLY OVER!!!!!
there is not storage issue
there is how ever a money issue.....:P
No Duo love? My PSP cries like a child abandoned by his parents.
They are really hard on the Custom Firmware users, huh?
GIVE IT UP, Sony.
Nobody wants a proprietary, horseshit flash card.
With the dire situation that company finds itself in, you'd think they'd give up on failed products like this.
Sure, it's not the cheapest (in fact, it's blatant ripoffski), but to call it failed is a bit of a stretch, IMO. Millions of devices are sold every year supporting one of these formats, from phones (M2) to PSP to cameras to camcorders to pro audio recorders.
They are milking the market quite well, so why should they give this healthy revenue stream up, from a business perspective?
That said, 9 times out of 10 I will chase up an equivalent or near-equivalent product that uses SD from another manufacturer. If there is no equivalent (for example, PSP), I pay the Memory Stick tax.
Goodbye hard drive?
Does anyone else think that hard drives will most likely become obsolete very soon if they don't have an extremely large upgrade storage and speed wise? The gap between hard drives and flash memory is exponentially decreases every year or so.
since when does flash memory increase by 30% every year?
wtf do u mean? flash has grown a lot since it first became mainstream, which wasn't that long ago. Hard drive disks have hit a limit in there ability to match their enormous sizes with enormous speed. RPM isn't gonna cut it for much longer. The only serious improvements on hard drives have been the price drops, which indicate it's move towards obsolescence.
I would have bought a PSP a long time ago if not for overpriced propriety sony stuff. If they had downloadable games to nice n cheap SDHC cards then I'd be all over that.
Lexar Media! What do the kids say? FTW!
All the anti-sony proprietary format haters, meet the next article posted. =)
i dont get why people hate on proprietary formats, i mean, if you have to buy expensive products to use a fancy display output to a fancy input on a fancy LED backlit glass screen, then so be it, right?
2TB is the limit of the file system they are using. 2TB is not what they are capable of physically producing any time soon.
"SDXC utilises Microsoft's new exFAT file system — AKA 'FAT 64' — which first appeared in Windows Vista SP1, and has a theoretical file size limit of 16 exbibytes." From Slashdot. I think the physical capacity is 2TB, but the filesystem can handle way more. Not that it should matter any time soon...
SD and Memory Stick are essentially the same. There isn't that much difference other than the form factor.
Indeed, both are pretty much the same. Form factor is a bit different. Memory stick is a bit older as a format and has a bit better compatibility w/older devices. (e.g. there are still a ton of non-SDHC devices that can't use any SDHC or newer devices, whereas any MS Pro slot will work w/all the newer devices (they just run slower due to lower clock and/or pins)).
Memory Stick Pro Duo Quad Extreme i7
A brand new car or a 2TB "Memory Stick Pro Quad format for Extended High Capacity".
You decide...
nerds dont need cars, they get everywhere they need to go with a jacked Beetle with solar panels in the back
so i guess i would have to say the memory card
and i think you stole Quad from me...
Yea, like this will happen soon...NOT
They will have to cash in on 64, 128, 256, 512GB & 1T cards first.
True, but even 128 and 256GB's would be simply incredible!
SCREW
MEMORY
STICK (ANYTHING)
When will the "Memory Stick" shit go away?
For all the memorystick haters here saying that proprietary formats should go away, 2 things:
1. Do you think that SD is open format?
2. I sure hope you're not typing from a Mac becasue the hypocrisy would just be too much
1. Well, if by open you mean used by 99% of the other hardware manufacturers, and so ridiculously easy to exchange among machines, not to mention always cheaper for exactly that reason, then yes.
2. I am not, and even if I was, that would be a ludicrously weak point.
JUST FREAKIN" DIE, MEMORY STICK!!
Just STFU looser
Why does Sony want to keep holding onto Memory Stick??? I won't buy any device that only uses Memory Stick. In fact I prefer to stick with SD. I have SD cards all over the place. They work in my PocketPC, GPS, Camera's, HDTV, etc. I won't buy a Sony device if I have to use Memory Stick. Forget about it. Only SONY uses it. I'm not going to lock myself into SONY Products in the same way I won't buy Music from ITUNES and be locked into IPODS. I like when for example, Netflix Streaming, Works on your PC, Xbox 360, Blu-Ray Players, Built into TV's, Stand alone Boxes. You have a Choice on what you want to use. That's how I look at these Memory chips. Standard format that works with most things. Sure there's Compact Flash, in MiniSD cards, But they work in more then 1 brand. SD seems to be the most popular.
Actually, I don't own a single sd card, but I own about 15 memory sticks. :P