Unabated, the race to increase usable storage space on devices continues. I was quite impressed with the 16GB SD card I got for the camcorder until I read that the SD Association has ratified the specifications for the SDXC (eXtended Capacity) standard.

SDXC increases the maximum storage from the current 32GB to 2TB. Increasing available storage space is a reasonable achievement, but is of little use if it takes three days to copy data. For that reason, the read/write speed of SD cards will increase almost threefold, from a current 104MB/s to around 300MB/s. The new cards should make an appearance in the coming months.

2TB is the initial size of the SAN I’m getting ready for backup and media sharing. In a few months, I could have all that data sitting on something the size of a fingernail… amazing!

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