Sony announces specs for 2TB Memory Stick XC
By Joseph L. Flatley 
posted August 5th 2009 10:02AM
posted August 5th 2009 10:02AM
[Via Sony Insider]
posted August 5th 2009 10:02AM
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Good old Sony.
Keep 'em confused boys.
Keep 'em confused.
jesus christ tap dancing on a cracker, thats alot of bits.
its true. no mistake
This is insane.....has it all happened in the last one year, 2TB HDDs, TB SSDs, BD, 128GB pen drives, and now this....do we really need this? can this replace HDD/SDD s (portable ones) ?
so this will make a hacked psp the ultimate weapon then correct?
the only thing that can make psp the ultimate weapon is another dozen decent games...please.
@sinjinn I'll second that... twice.
When the games are free, they tend to be decent when remembering how much you didn't pay...
This has to be bullshit. We don't even have a 256GB Memory Stick yet!
(And I just bought my 16GB Pro Duo yesterday...)
The 2 TB is very likely theoretical at this point, no flash memory is dense enough to allow that much space on one card.
MemoryStick XC - 460mbps
SDXC - 300mbps
Thoshiba + Sandisk + Panasonic = SD Association
Three of them working together are not able to reach 460 mbps.
Sony alone did this and bought it on their website.
whats better - I say Sony .
Sony I love you .....
um, it's actually 300 MB/s, which is more like 2.4 Gbit/s. Sorry, this claims Memory stick can get 480 Mb/s. (though initial SDXC cards are going to be 60 MB/s, same as the maximum claimed here.)
Vaperzzz!
An interesting article on disk space / information storage appeared in American Scientist years ago:
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/id.3287,y.0,no.,content.true,page.3,css.print/issue.aspx
Most interesting thing about the article is the last two sections. Basically, the article is states that storage capacity is due for an explosion. (Since this article was written about 5 years ago, I'd say we are at the beginning of the explosion.) Capacity will reach the point where normal economics won't come into play. The author muses that disk space will be so enormous that our lifetime will be too short to experience all the media that we could store on the drive.
That would be sort of neat, huh? Storage capacity gets so large that we measure capacity in terms of how many lifetime experiences could be stored. Now suppose you can record all the sights and sounds you've heard from the day you were born. Just how much data would that be assuming reasonable sound and sight quality?
Anyway, read the article. It's a good read.
there is no point more memory if they cant increase the read/write speed of the memory itself. You would spend more time searching for data than actually using it
O Rly.....there goes the neighborhood
This + PSP would be pure sex
2TB would just be the maxiumum of the spec, by the time they could produce 2tb sticks a better spec would be written.
I hope this fits into my laptop's card reader. 2TB?! G and T are right next to each other on the keyboard. I may end up getting a built in card reader for my desktop too.
total photoshop..
2TB on a Memory Stick is "crazy, insane"!
I know it's my misunderstanding of SSD's but how in the ef do they put 2TB on a memory stick and we barely only have 1gig on an SSD? don't get.
I meant 1TB on SSD.. not 1 gig.
They accidentally cropped off the price column: 2-3 times the cost of an sd card.
For those of your who are blown away by the size, or don't believe it is real, I suggest you take a couple minutes to google what a "spec" is, vs. an "actual thing". By the time these are affordable, your desktop will have and require far more than 2tB.
Memeorysticks aren't for desktops, they are for sony cameras and PSP3 or 4 probably
2TB is possible. Since it' will be doubled in thickness and length. Sony already has prototypes running with 512GB in the small Memory Stick Micro :)
How do they do this? Transdimensional storage?
2TB in a Memory Stick is impressive, but a 2TB filesystem using FAT? The size of the FAT table(s) alone has got to be astronomical, not to mention slow. Are digital cameras going to have to start supporting filesystems for desktop OSs in a few years? What a weird thought.
Wow.. to think this baby could hold about 105,000 pictures of say.. 2mb each. wonder why anyone would need so many pictures... oh.
I meant 1,048,576 not 105,000! my maths is terrible.
The windows powertoy calculator is 212KB, how many of those will fit?
:) Just teasing.
Why won't the memory stick die :(
And yes, this is a theoretical maximum, just like how SDXC's maximum is 2TB as well. At most, they've probably got a 32/64GB card up for sale, and perhaps up to 128/256GB in some lab somewhere.
Perhaps you can use an SSD with adaptor to plug it n the memorystick slot get to those sizes.
I Call BS!
I'm only 31 years old and remember having an external HD the size of a VCR underneath my Mac Plus... 20 MEG and it was almost 2,000$... I know some of you older-timers can come up with even more extravagant stories, but just thought I'd go there...
I was digging through the garage the other day and found a pristine copy of a game (Might and Magic 1) which had a promo sticker on the box that said "Hard Drive Supported".
Pretty good stuff... I wouldn't expect these memory sticks to be below $1500-2000 knowing Sony...
FAT? Uhm, must be exFAT then eh for those sizes, FAT indeed, pfft.
Price: 2 TeraYEN.
Im calling horse sh*t on this one. There is not enough room *currently* inside a memory stick for 2TB of NAND Flash.
3-5 years from now.. sure... today... impossible.
My two cents.
So given Sony's typical pricing strategy, this thing ought to be selling for... oh... somewhere around $4,000 or so?
this is, in a word: IMPOSSIBLE
at least for now
The first memory stick I bought back in 2005 was a 128 MB one. Technology evolves freaking f*cking fast indeed!
Who said AWESOME!!! :)
I hate you, Sony. I hate you so damn much. Why can't you just use SD, like the rest of the world? Why must you keep poisoning the world with your stupid, non-standard formats?
Oh, that's right. Because you're Sony. And Sony just wouldn't be Sony without it's dickishness.
hey guys look at these specs:
MicroSDXXXC
128 TB of storage
weights 0.1 grams
1 GB/s transfer speed
yeah awesome, now that i officially published these specs on engadget it shouldn't take more than 3 months for it to become an actual product
oh look, its SONY releasing yet another fictional best case scenario for their memory stick!!! they do this every year it seems, saying this one now has this much potential and guess what ---- WE NEVER SEE ANY OF IT COME TO THE REAL WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
and i really hope they have axed the all too tiny M2 (micro) stick, good its small and gets lost really really really easy!