PRETEC pointlessly announces world's first SDXC card without a ship date
By Thomas Ricker 
posted March 6th 2009 4:01AM
posted March 6th 2009 4:01AM
Here it is, the world's first SDXC card... announcement. Unfortunately, PRETEC's take on the new SD eXtended Capacity storage format falls well short of the 2TB theoretical maximum at 32GB (a 64GB card is promised for later in the year), as does the card's 50MBps transfer rate when 300MBps data rates are possible. Still, a first's a first, at least it could be if this is the first SDXC card to go retail -- PRETEC doesn't list a price or a ship date. Let's just hope that devices supporting the SDXC standard appear at about the same time these SDXC cards do ship, eh?
I swear I've seen 32GB cards before is this really the first one? I could be confusing it with something else thou.
There ARE 32gb sdHC cards, however, I beleive they only exist in up to class 6. Which is somewhere around 6mb/s. 55mb/s is really significant, too bad devices won't support it for quite some time.
There are 32GB SDHC cards out there which I think is the max capacity for SDHC. All you get with this SDXC card therefore is faster transfer rates.
@Caramel
Class 6 means MINIMUM 6MB/s writes..
You could still have a 100MB/s SDHC card, but it would still be considered a "Class 6"
Can SDHC yokes use this?
Bigger room, Smaller House.
It took long enough for most devices to support SDHC cards. I'm much more interested in them finally coming out with a 32gb, class 6 microSDHC card.
I remember when the LG chocolate first launched, and with it the first sandisk 2gb microsd, at $99. Doesn't seem that long ago. We've come so far.
Ha, yea, I remember getting my half-gig microsd for about $35 a couple years ago. Now 16GB cards are almost that low.
does anything even read SDXC??
Maybe if we put it in the NY Times or something we all could read it...
No..?
The 32GB limit on SDHC is purely an artificial one. First, the SDHC specification sets aside 22 bits of the 128-bit identification string for addressing the memory in increments of 512 bytes, but only 16 of these bits are allowed to be used. Second, FAT32 will have trouble addressing more than 32GBs on memory-limited consumer devices like cameras and MP3 players (Windows requires NTFS for formatting anything over 32GB, too). So, SDXC is a software-only standard change. The rest of those 22 bits are permitted to be used and the filesystem is switched to exFAT (which, aside from being an evil, patent ridden, proprietary piece of crap, can efficiently address more than 32GB).
As Linux has addressed all 22 bits for SDHC from the beginning, practically any Linux device that supports SDHC shouldn't have any issue with SDXC, you'll just need to use a real filesystem (EXT3 is a good choice).
At some point I'll write a comment that isn't pointless. Guess how much it'll cost you to read it!
the theoretical maximum is theoretical engadget, just wait a few years for bigger cards and don't complain ;)
32 GB is huge no matter what you say.
MicroSDXC and we'll talk. That standard sized goliath won't fit in much more than a digi-cam or a netbook.
"Goliath"?? And I thought my CF cards were small..
at ces the sdxc booth presentation they said 'jump your data into hyperspace'. i couldn't help but laugh. hyperspace? i bet it would be a pain retrieving said data if that were true.
They *are* called "PRE-TEC," you know. It only makes sense that they would have this announced without a date.
All netbooks, laptops and desktops should come standard with SDHC slots and all mobile devices should have microSDHC. It's such a great format for storing stuff on. And to think I spent all those years using 400/800 KB floppy disks. I've found SDHC to be completely reliable and fast enough for my usage and reasonable enough in price for the amount of data they can hold.
Engadget pointlessly tells us PRETEC pointlessly announces world's first SDXC card without a ship date. E could easily drop these "pointless" posts....yes, free to read, but its only my time I value.
fuck the 32, give me the 64, but i really want a 128 to begin with for a mp3 player, but when 2TB gets here in like 50 years, ahh shit
Can be formated with os and use as ssd or hdd? If this possible, the future notebook ll be more light weight.