1TB SD card

[Shadowman]

Has anyone seen one yet?

http://www.computerworld.com/article...b-sd-card.html

[Donald]

They obviously feel there is a market for it if they are developing and selling it, but I don't know who or what that market would be. To me it feels more like a case of 'We'll do this because we can, whether it's actually needed or not.' And, of course, there will always be those who want to say they have a 1TB card, whether they need it or not.

[Shadowman]

They obviously feel there is a market for it if they are developing and selling it, but I don't know who or what that market would be. To me it feels more like a case of 'We'll do this because we can, whether it's actually needed or not.' And, of course, there will always be those who want to say they have a 1TB card, whether they need it or not.

Also, will it work on most cameras and card readers.

[Rent]

I prefer a lot of small cards to one big one. What happens if it goes corrupt ?

[Mike Buckley]

What happens if it goes corrupt ?

Or is lost?

[DanK]

I never come remotely close to filling my 32 GB cards. I would have absolutely no use for this. Can you imagine uploading and then culling 1 TB of images?

Perhaps videographers might find it useful.

[pnodrog]

It would make very compact backup storage device. Handled and stored appropriately (anti-static bag or case and temperature below 40 deg C) long term it should theoretically be more secure and robust than an external USB drive. You could easily keep it in the glove box of your car as off site backup.

[Saorsa]

I could see it for Hi-resolution video as pixel count on sensors continues to rise.

[Shadowman]

According to my camera's manual, my camera has only been tested approved for (Sandisk only):
SD-2GB
SDHC-32GB
SDXC 128GB

For Lexar-up to 256GB for SDXC.

I doubt if Nikon would bother to go back to older models to retest for higher capacity cards.

[Black Pearl]

It is designed for video where current 4k and the coming 8k bodies produce gigantic files so need this sort of capacity. Thinking in terms of stills and 'what if it corrupts' is totally missing the point.

I have an 8MB (no I didn't miss-type that) CF card from when I first started using a digital camera and at the time it was more than adequate - Sony produced an entire range of cameras that recorded to floppy-disc with the most popular ones using 3.5" 1.44BM discs which sold well and were able to record a significant number of shots - the latter ones even shot video.

Things move on all the time and this is simply the next logical step.

[Mike Buckley]

Thinking in terms of stills and 'what if it corrupts' is totally missing the point.

Perhaps many people posting in the thread made my mistake of not even taking the time to read the very brief article. That article indeed explains that the increased storage capacity is "necessary to address the increasing demand for high-resolution content, such as 4K and 8K videos, virtual reality and 360-degree videography."

[NorthernFocus]

Perhaps because this is a photography forum we are too narrow minded in our ideas about the use of SD cards. I have a laptop with a small SSD. The laptop has a SD card slot and I use cards like a second hard drive. Bigger is better in that usage. I doubt I'll ever use a 1TB card but as bigger cards come out the price of the others goes down. In this service I can surely use 256 or 500BG. To-date I've limited myself to 128 due to cost.

[Saorsa]

Perhaps because this is a photography forum we are too narrow minded in our ideas about the use of SD cards. I have a laptop with a small SSD. The laptop has a SD card slot and I use cards like a second hard drive. Bigger is better in that usage. I doubt I'll ever use a 1TB card but as bigger cards come out the price of the others goes down. In this service I can surely use 256 or 500BG. To-date I've limited myself to 128 due to cost.

That's a possibility but I think file management would need to be changed in some OS. Mapping out files on a slow device eats time.

[FootLoose]

It would make very compact backup storage device. Handled and stored appropriately (anti-static bag or case and temperature below 40 deg C) long term it should theoretically be more secure and robust than an external USB drive. You could easily keep it in the glove box of your car as off site backup.

Below 40deg C - in the glove box of your car? Not in summer; not in these latitudes. Possibly not in spring or autumn too.

[pendennis]

A 1TB SD card is there because that's where the technology leads us. Technology always leads the science and practical use of that particular technology. I've yet to fill up my 2TB back-up drives, and they've yet to fail.

Moore's Law still works just like Dr. Moore predicted back in the 60's. In fact, Moore's Law probably goes back to the dawn of the 20th Century. In five or six years, we'll be wondering how we ever lived without a 1TB SD card.

[IzzieK]

John, my cell phone came with a free 256GB EVO micro card by Samsung. and I thought that is big! 1TB is YUGE!! If you think of laptops nowadays, they do not come with a CD/DVD drive anymore, because that sounds like an old song. Software manufacturers do not send you a CD/DVD copies of their softwares, they asked for your physical address then give you permission to download their software and/or manuals. On close inspection, laptops do have SD card slots. Unfortunately they have only one slot for the card. But they have slots for USB and HDMI. It is the thin profile that they go for, hence the thin profile of the SD card is more appropriate in this day's age of technological advances. However it will be nice that if a 1TB SD card have that extra space in it too for storage, not just for reading. Imagine if you transfer file with an almost full 1TB card to your computer ? Maybe it will come...one day.

[Shadowman]

John, my cell phone came with a free 256GB EVO micro card by Samsung. and I thought that is big! 1TB is YUGE!! If you think of laptops nowadays, they do not come with a CD/DVD drive anymore, because that sounds like an old song. Software manufacturers do not send you a CD/DVD copies of their softwares, they asked for your physical address then give you permission to download their software and/or manuals. On close inspection, laptops do have SD card slots. Unfortunately they have only one slot for the card. But they have slots for USB and HDMI. It is the thin profile that they go for, hence the thin profile of the SD card is more appropriate in this day's age of technological advances. However it will be nice that if a 1TB SD card have that extra space in it too for storage, not just for reading. Imagine if you transfer file with an almost full 1TB card to your computer ? Maybe it will come...one day.

Izzie, I have two card slots in my camera; with each holding a 32gb card and in the last year I've only had to utilize the 2nd card once, but as you saidit would be nice.

[IzzieK]

John, I was meaning to say that seeing that bigger SD cards are the look into the future, laptops should have two slots for SD cards or Micros SD cards too. I have two card slots in my D810 too and in my cellphone, apart from my Sims card 32GB, I also have a slot for another card like that free 256GB microSD I got with my phone. That plus another storage I can put in the charging hole of my cell phone if I am not using that, a USB adapter that has 32GB of memory too. Storage capacities nowadays are getting smaller footprints....

[MrB]

A 1TB SD card is there because that's where the technology leads us. Technology always leads the science and practical use of that particular technology. I've yet to fill up my 2TB back-up drives, and they've yet to fail.

Moore's Law still works just like Dr. Moore predicted back in the 60's. In fact, Moore's Law probably goes back to the dawn of the 20th Century. In five or six years, we'll be wondering how we ever lived without a 1TB SD card.

+1

Exactly right - it's progress!

Cheers.
Philip

[pnodrog]

A 1TB SD card is there because that's where the technology leads us. Technology always leads the science and practical use of that particular technology. I've yet to fill up my 2TB back-up drives, and they've yet to fail.

Moore's Law still works just like Dr. Moore predicted back in the 60's. In fact, Moore's Law probably goes back to the dawn of the 20th Century. In five or six years, we'll be wondering how we ever lived without a 1TB SD card.

The end is near..... http://www.nature.com/news/the-chips...-s-law-1.19338