Sony announces specs for 2TB Memory Stick XC
By Joseph L. Flatley 
posted Aug 5th 2009 10:02AM
posted Aug 5th 2009 10:02AM
[Via Sony Insider]
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Holy crap! 2TB on a Memory Stick? No need for an external hard drive then.
what the fish :O
2TB o.0
thats alot of storage!!!
... must be a typo.
plz sony keep the prices affordable, don't make ppl rob banks for this shizzit
Prices are going to be astronomical... but give it like 6 months (er... 2-3years) and they'll be in bestbuy's cheap-junk bin.
How long till we have some serious storage? Like... i'm looking for a couple of Petabytes... or an Exabyte or two
(http://www.chaaban.info/2006/11/02/what-comes-after-the-terabyte/
What comes after the Terabytes?
1024 Terabytes = 1 Petabyte
What comes after the Petabytes ?
1024 Petabytes = 1 Exabyte
What comes after the Exabyte ?
1024 Exabyte = 1 zettabyte
What comes after the zettabyte ?
1024 zettabyte = 1 Yottabyte )
1991 : Holy Crap 2GB on a HARD DRIVE for only 299$ ! I'm soooo getting it
Heh nice work House
1987: 1.5Mb memory upgrade, ex demo unit?
$1500
true story, it was $2500 new. But man I could render some scenes.... slowly.
Sony keep prices reasonable on Memory Sticks? HAHAHA you have a better chance of Steve Jobs using a Palm Pre than Sony ever doing that.
I feel like I am being pranked, this real!?
Sorry Dr. House but a 2GB drive is so 1995. Around 1991 the super duper high end was around a 300MB drive. My 386 laptop at the time had a mega 60MB drive in it (120MB if you used Stacker!).
@milkway
your cook?
This is a MAXIMUM RATING, not a current product.
This is just the specification, I don't think we have the technology to put 2tb in such a small space. They are just releasing the specs that will support such technology.
The trade off is, 2TB at 15 megabits per second means that by the time you have finished copying the data from the card you'll likely be pushing daisies somewhere underground.
That sick looks absolutely stick.
This has to be fake, at those read speeds it would take 30hours to read the entire 2TB card at 20MB/S (peak speed)- good luck finding your wedding photos at that speed.
1024MB= 1GB
1048576MB=1024GB= 1TB
the card has 2 TB
(1024MB X 1024MB)2 =2TB= 2,097,152MB
2,097,152MB / 20MBperS(read speed) / 60 (seconds) / 60(minutes) = 29.1271111
who in their right mind will try to transfer 2TB at a time?.... maybe 6GB at a time... it's a memory card, not an external hard drive. think of what it will actually be used for (phones, pmp's, psp's, camers)
Is it April 1st?
i assume 2 terabyte is the theoretical maximum, just like 32 gb is the theoretical maximum on a msduo.
considering its taken a few years for 32gb to reach the market , you shoudnt expect 2T straight away, rather they will probably start at 64 gb and then double on a yearly/bi yearly basis .
so its just the same as whats gone in the past . we woulda said "holy shit 32gb on a memory stick" a few years ago , and now were almost at the point of demanding a 32 gb memory stick for less than the price of a packet of cornflakes.
@sinjinn
you put cornflakes in packets? where do you live?
Yes I'm memory sick too..........
Somebody had a little too much fun with the clone tool in Photoshop.
...and even with that - he did a crap job! How difficult is it to clone that simple grey area? Very difficult for Joseph apparently!
It actually doesn't look like he use the clone tool at all, its too blurry. I he copied a section and stretch it to cover different areas.
MemoryStick should die already.
World would be a better place if there was only:
MicroSD, SD (SDHC SDXC), CompactFlash
I actually hate xD more than I do MemoryStick...
Olympus is retarded for still sticking to xD
XD? Surely you mean :(
I like the Memory Stick format, much more than MicroSD and CompactFlash. Prices are not bad either 16GB @ $60 for Pro Duo is nice. The only thing I use CompactFlash with these days is my SLR and I doubt my next one will.
So in other words, you want the memory stick business to be monopolized by Sandisk? Do we need a lesson on Monopolies and they they are bad for us consumers again?
Do you know that SD capable devices are incapable of recognizing SDHC cards and SDHC capable devices in turn can't use SDXC cards, while Sony's devices can use any card within the same format it was designed for, capacity no bar?
My ancient phone can read 16 GB M2s with ease, while a Nokia of similar vintage can't even recognize a 4GB SDHC. The PSP can use a 16 GB MS with ease and such cards were only a figment of imagination when the device came out!
Tonnes of people use sony devices and whether you like it or not, MS is not going away.
P.S. Sony Ericsson moved to MicroSD because of an across the table agreement between handset manufacturers to stick to a common memory format.
So what happened to the previous story about Sony dumping Memory Stick and switching over to SD ?
Have someone on Engadget research "proof reading" it helps you all look like real writers.
did you proofread your comment?
That was Sony Ericsson dumping memory stick, not Sony. I remember getting confused by that shortly after it was announced.
OMGWTFBBQVCR!!!!!!!
does not say they are dumping it. says they are switching to sd for cell phones.
Better work with the PSP, then we have something better than a console.
PSP NAS?
Is this a joke? How the hell can they fit 2TB on a memory stick?!?
I know i thought a terabyte was at least 9 square inches worth of data.
just like how can they fit 1.44mb onto a floppy
technology changes, 10 years from now we will be laughing at memory cards that have "only" 1 petabyte on them and they will cost $2 at Micro Center
There's no way they have made a 2TB mem stick, rather I think these (horribly titled) articles just report that sony has finalised the specifications of the Memory Stick XC format that support UP TO 2TB...
They're using the same Shrink-Ray technology they are firing on the PS3 to create PS3 Slims.
it's just ones and zeros...
and the ones take up less space, so keep that in mind when you save things.
I loled at all the tags.
20 MB/s writing speed is of course a complete joke.
The new versions of SD, SDXC, offer 60 MB/s peak rate.
So to fill 2 TB of data you need 29 hours....
lots of storage for my collection of furry baby farm animalsssssssssssssssssss
Spec does not equal actual product, just like the spec for SDXC which came out months ago does not equal actual 2TB SD card. Don't get excited people.
SDXC memory cards announced specs for 2TB cards back in January...
http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/07/sdxc-memory-cards-promise-2tb-of-storage-300mbps-transfer/
all the names of the memory cards are making me shit brix
why cant they just put this inside a ps3 or a ps3?
oops i meant psp.
R U srs?
pix or GTFO
oh wait lulz
I like the storage space. I dont like the price. Two of my first born? Ouch.