The 2TB SD Card
The SD association have just announced that thanks to a new standard they’ll have the capability to have up to 2TB’s of data on an SD card. Well that’s cool, but should we really care? I know that for years people have being underestimating what an average computer user will need, most famously Bill Gates; “No one will need more than 637 kb of memory for a personal computer”.
But, I think that we’re getting to the point where the various speed increases that a computer gains are becoming less and less visible to a human. I’m pretty sure that we’ll soon be getting to the point where any improvement in system power will be negligible. Camera manufacturers have stopped increasing mega-pixels and on the video side of things – it doesn’t look like we’ll be able to see the difference after 8K.
Imagine how hard it would be to fill a 2TB SD card, even if you had a 25mpxl camera. Not easy and not worth the money. I’d feel a lot more comfortable with several smaller cards.
I’m not saying that it isn’t impressive that they’ll be able to stick 2TB onto an SD card. I’m just saying – is it practical?
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