Panasonic SDXC cards roadmap and Lumix camera lineup at CES 2010
By Richard Lai 
posted January 8th 2010 3:39AM
posted January 8th 2010 3:39AM
posted January 8th 2010 3:39AM
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So how much higher is higher speed?
@Eupfhoria
USB3 speed perhaps.
@Eupfhoria
Speed is one thing... what about data fidelity?
@Eupfhoria
The only thing I can scrape from these pictures is their highest "gold series" which includes the 4 SDHC cards and the two smaller capacity HDXC cars at 22 MB/S
"Word has it that Panasonic will let out the 1TB card by the end of this year."
Too bad not even offering your eternal soul and 5 years of hard labor is enough to pay for it.
@Dante of the Inferno
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@Dante of the Inferno
man a 2tb sd card just blows my mind.
Unfortunately the chart for cost goes the same direction.
@Taylor
Exponentially too.
Imagine if you will 2TB of porn anywhere sd card is accepted.
Show MicroSD cards some 1TB love!
@Guru101010
So when can I expect a 128 gb iPod Nano?
cant wait to see Panasonic drop the ball on this one
Seems to me that all the higher capacities of 128GB to 2TB will be released in or after 2011 (and not the end of this year, as you mentioned).
@Musouka
My thought exactly.
@Musouka Yes but we were literally told that!
@Richard Lai
I'm sure whoever told you that was literally full of shit.
@nikescar Yeah, I hear you. I recall being told by Panasonic at last year's CES that SDXC was going to be out last summer. We shall see.
I just want my 32GB MicroSD card already
@EGOvoruhk
+1. My cell phone would really appreciate a 32GB microSD card.
Coming soon for the low low price of only $10,000!
@greatcaffeine $10,000? Are you getting a discount?
Is it wrong that the prospect of a 2TB card gives me a slight stiffy?
@lastv8 maybe a hot chick holding a 2TB will.
@lastv8
If you live on Silicon, no. But on planet earth, thats considered freak sh!t.
@F C Thats will be the never cover of PcFormat. Hot girl holding a tiny SD card with slogan. "Size DOES matter"
@lastv8 your gettin a hard drive?
Based on that chart, the SDHC line took about 2 yrs to roll out so the SDXC will probably take 2 or possibly 3 yrs to roll out as there's more cards in that series. 1-2TB cards probably won't be out till 2012 at the earliest (more likely will be a 2013 or later release) and they'll be expensive when they come out like the 48/64 GB cards ($450/$600) about to come out.
Still blows my mind how small they can keep the size but continue to double capacity. I still have a 32MB Memory Stick Pro Duo that came with my PSP in 2005.. how I coped with that for a year I'll never know.
What I'd really like is some huge capacity USB flash drives, but the prices have stalled for a very long time; I got a 16GB for £16.99 in late 2008, and it still costs £16.99 today.
Shit, Put hella games, music and movies on it for the low high price of $2500 =D....(-.-)
Well, lookie here, looks like SD's taking a page out of Sony's playbook. What? No one remembers Memory Stick Pro Duo XC Mark 2?
Apparently, neither does Sony.
A terabyte! Please I'll wait until they release a Yottabyte, then I'll be able to at least store something.
bye bye stupid cds and dvds...
Available at the end of this year for the low price of one soul.
Warren Buffet already has the 2TB card. He says it works very well, but that he's not so happy about living in a cardboard box under a bridge.
Bah, who cares for the SDXC (I care!!) cards if there's (almost) no real hardware to use them?!?!
1TB on a piece of silicon that small is just wrong. 2TB is blasphemy...
I can't wrap my head around this. Only 2-3 years ago I was struggling to stuff 128MB onto a flash drive the size of a lipstick...
Also, at that speed, I'd just stick a bunch of them into a matchbox computer.
Unbelievable, I got excited that 2GB cards are only $10. That seems like plenty of space for a point and shoot, but a 2TB card blows my mind.
Well it seems like storage has made a huge leap forward...here's looking at you battery life?
What is the speed and reliability of SDXC vs SSD? I take it these cards still use MLC? Have there been any advances in reliability? At 1tb and without any advances in reliability, your exposure to data loss starts to get a little unnerving despite the amazing advantages of a package so small.
I cant deal with the concept of a 2tb sd card......
But if these 'higher' speeds are not much faster by the time you finish copying 1TB of data to the card the 2TB version will be out for half the price of your 1TB card!
Well then the cost of 32GB SDHC's will be in the $9.99-$14.99 range, now we're talking - something I can use TODAY! You know there is this thing called BluRay that's trying real hard to win users over...if these higher capacity cards come out and end up being reasonable in price, then why would anyone want to buy a BluRay optical player? Big, power hungry, full of parts that can fail, lasers that burn out...hell, just buy a card reader > plug in card > watch movie. No firmware bullshit or outdated or un-finalized standards crap...
You all think it's a lot of space, but by 2011-2012 the media will have grown to take up the available space, so you'll have about the same number of files on each SD card. Uncompressed 4K video footage maybe? That'd eat 2TB right up.
I love you Panny!