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SanDisk Announces the World's First 1TB SDXC Card

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Western Digital Corporation, a global storage technology and solutions leader, today unveiled its SanDisk 1TB terabyte (TB) SDXC card prototype at the world's leading trade fair for photo and video professionals. With increasing demand for high resolution content, such as 4K and 8K, the company continues to push the boundaries of technology with solutions that support the exponential growth of data-intensive production demands.

"Showcasing the most advanced imaging technologies is truly exciting for us," said Dinesh Bahal, vice president, product management, Content Solutions Business Unit, Western Digital. "Sixteen years ago we introduced the first SanDisk 64MB SD card and today we are enabling capacities of 1TB. Over the years our goal has remained the same; continue to innovate and set the pace for the imaging industry. The SanDisk 1TB SD card prototype represents another significant achievement as growth of high-resolution content and capacity-intensive applications such as virtual reality, video surveillance and 360 video, are progressing at astounding rates."



Since the introduction of the record-breaking 512GB SanDisk Extreme PRO SDXC UHS-I Memory Card at Photokina 2014, Western Digital has proven it can nearly double the capacity in the same SD card form factor using proprietary technology. Higher capacity cards expand the possibilities for professional videographers and photographers, giving them even greater ability to create more of the highest quality content, without the interruption of changing cards.

"Just a few short years ago the idea of a 1TB capacity point in an SD card seemed so futuristic - it's amazing that we're now at the point where it's becoming a reality. With the growing demand for applications like VR, we can certainly use 1TB when we're out shooting continuous high-quality video. High-capacity cards allow us to capture more without interruption, streamlining our workflow, and eliminating the worry that we may miss a moment because we have to stop to swap out cards," said Sam Nicholson, CEO of Stargate Studios and member of the American Society of Cinematographers.

Western Digital will be demonstrating the SanDisk 1TB SDXC card prototype and showcasing its newest offerings at Photokina, Hall 02.1 Stand A014.

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How can they stuff 1TB of NAND chips into SD card, but most vendors almost struggle to make 1TB 2.5" drives!?
 
How can they stuff 1TB of NAND chips into SD card, but most vendors almost struggle to make 1TB 2.5" drives!?

I noticed you just love mixing unrelated products.

First of all ssds are built entirely different with higher power consumption controllers and their own RAM, secondly the chips needs to go through a much higher read write cycle as well as speeds.

Nobody struggles making 1Tb ssds. 4-8tb ones are quite easy to make these days. It is all about maximizing profits
 
I was talking about the product size since many vendors (or people around it) love to complain how they can't physically stack enough chips in a product...
 
How can they stuff 1TB of NAND chips into SD card, but most vendors almost struggle to make 1TB 2.5" drives!?
They bought a Shrink Ray, like the one from Honey, I shrunk the Kids". Simple. :roll::pimp:
 
WTF 1TB... my 7.5 inch HDD is 1TB... i need to get with the times bruh.
 
WTF 1TB... my 7.5 inch HDD is 1TB... i need to get with the times bruh.
7.5-inch... must be a really special custom job, can't have been cheap....
 
and I am reading this on a XP machine with 3.5' hdd with x0.150 capacity of this finger nail size thing....
I do agree with RejZor with this one - ssd marketers still announce 1TB in 2.5'' as something special they have managed... they would better pack at least 10TB in those 2.5' form factors before they open their mouth.
 
For 4K video? 4KS35 format is about 720MB per minute.
So 1TB would give you about 1300 minutes or about 21 hours of recording ... that IS overkill RIGHT NOW but 6k video is coming down the pipe, proper 4k 360 video ... it's nice to know that storage won't be the limiting factor for these technologies.
 
and I am reading this on a XP machine with 3.5' hdd with x0.150 capacity of this finger nail size thing....
I do agree with RejZor with this one - ssd marketers still announce 1TB in 2.5'' as something special they have managed... they would better pack at least 10TB in those 2.5' form factors before they open their mouth.
Seagate announced a 60TB 3.5" ssd. and Samsung built a 16TB 2.5"
 
How can they stuff 1TB of NAND chips into SD card, but most vendors almost struggle to make 1TB 2.5" drives!?

Well, the SD cards don't have the controller and RAM processors on it. Those are in the camera/phone/etc device. Also their transfer speed is way lower than SSDs.

Seagate announced a 60TB 3.5" ssd. and Samsung built a 16TB 2.5"

Yeah, and I saw a 100TB SSD announcement somewhere (Toshiba?). However, price wise, right now, any SSD drive bigger than 2TB is not profitable.
But I agree, the producers are GREEDY BASTERDS for keeping the prices so high for SSDs.
 
Yeah, and I saw a 100TB SSD announcement somewhere. However, price wise, right now, any SSD drive bigger than 2TB is not profitable.
But I agree, the producers are GREEDY BASTERDS for keeping the prices so high for SSDs.
part of that has to do with scale. for the home market 2tb is currently plenty of space for the vast majority of users. so they don't need to make as many 4+tb's which means limited runs, which increases costs.
 
alot of devices need firmware updates just to see over 256GB on Phones and other devices. No Sense in making this if most devices cant read it anyway.
 
...No Sense in making this if most devices cant read it anyway.
So basically you're saying, no sense in pushing the technology further, right? Let's stay in on the same level, we finally achieved Perfection!
 
no such thing
 
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