Toshiba demonstrates 64GB SDXC, pledges spring release
By Tim Stevens 
posted January 13th 2010 10:07AM
posted January 13th 2010 10:07AM
posted January 13th 2010 10:07AM
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Is it really necessary to make 64GB cards? Do some people actually fill these things up?
@TheHeretic
I can take just about this much high res video on my camera in a week. It is a ta excessive though.
@TheHeretic You're right of course, 640KB is enough for anyone!
@TheHeretic I could easily. I shoot exclusively in RAW with my DSLR and can fill up an 8 gig card in a few hours when I'm doing an event.
@TheHeretic
i have 2TB of video (TV Shows, Movies), 20 GB photos,35 GB music
for me 64GB is just not enough
@OCEAN CLAK and why would you store all of that on an sd card? do they even made pmp's that support storage for 2.5TB?
Call me when we're in the terabytes.
@KevinLWright
And call *me* when the cards in the article are a reasonable price.
@kaprikawn
What? $700 isn't reasonable?
"The 64GB cards offer 60MB/s reads and 32MB/s writes..."
Doesn't the picture of the card show 35MB/s write?? just saying, just saying.
@trippinzakk Whoops, typo. Fixed it. Thanks.
SDXC is certainly nice, but what about microSD 32gb?
@(Unverified) its never gonna come.. its there only to promote mobile phone sales.
@rakeshin samsung i making 32gb microsd cards. sampling in feb and to consumers later this year..
http://www.phonescoop.com/news/item.php?n=5363
Will this work with older camera's like the D90?
Meh, still waiting for 2TB SDXC Cards to be released
this could help a lot with PMPs that offer expansion SDXC slots
@willowtwf Hopefully yes.
... so I'm assuming no backwards compatibility, right? I'm going to have to replace the card readers in all 3 of my PCs like I did 2 years ago for SDHC?
Even today, visiting WalMart or MicroCenter finds 50% or more of "50-in-1" reader models don't even support SDHC.
@RogerX SD to SDHC only required a firmware upgrade at most... So anything with an SD card slot supports up to SDHC, software permitting.
SDXC requires new chipsets, so you'd have to buy a new card reader which supports SDXC cards (and, of course, SD and SDHC cards). SDXC is backward-compatible with SD and SDHC, whilst SD/SDHC isn't forward-compatible with SDXC.
http://www.sdcard.org/consumers/faq/#sdxc_compat
@thoughtmonster
My Dell 3007WFP-HC does *not* read SDHC (does read SD), if your know that firmware update, please say so.
@mai9
heres and SD TO SDHC Driver for windows xp http://support.microsoft.com/kb/934428
or type SD to SDHC on google
Nobody pays list price for memory, look at Newegg. But just for comparison, the biggest fastest card that Best Buy carries is a 32gb 30mb/s card that cost $399 ($12.50 per gigabyte). 64 gb for $700 divides out to $10.93/gb. The $700 projected price is not out of line with what is currently available. Bleeding edge technology has always carried a premium.
And for the historical perspective, when I installed my first 1 gigabyte hard-drive in a computer, I sat there and scratched by head figuring out how I would use all that space. With digital music, larger programs, and video capture, 1 gb turned out to feel small a few months later.
I want a 2TB MicroSDXC Card!
That would be so sweet, can you imagine that in your phone...
ALL your media, on your phone. And you can stream it all to your TV from your phone! Guess I will just have to wait till 2012...
Sighhhhh......
The frustrating thing is, they could quite easily just make them now!
Talk about Greed.
Many eons ago, you would go travelling with a bunch of instamtics or with packages of film and you could only take as many photos as you had film. Yes, some of us remember the old 126 film Instamatics. Now, with a64G card, you can take a zillion billion pictures of your ugly nephews at Disney, photos of you at the Eiffel tower and leave them on yoru memory card and still have room for every single trip you will every take.
Oh! I thought of something else. My Lenovo S-10 has a card reader slot, and only 60 G of HD. I stick one of these babies in my netbook's card reader and double my storage. Now, imagine a laptop with multiple card readers.
I move a lot of content around. The internet tubs are too dam slow. I have filled by 500GB portable hard drive and got in the car and drove over to the place I needed the data.
64GB is a good start but I want and need that 2TB card.
When the 2TB cards come out, I wonder if they'll give us the option of purchasing an entire season of a TV show in HD on a single card? No more disk switching again!
$700? Pffffft..... I will be buying my PNY version for $500 less.