Topic: Looks like Nintendo was RIGHT!!!! New SDcard standard jumps from 2TB up to 128TB

[BlackNMild2k1]

128GB card size with almost 1GB a second in transfer speed. The SDmicro Future is almost here.

https://www.cnet.com/news/new-sd-card-uc-express-specs-tout-128tb-max-up-to-almost-1gb-per-sec/

The new "UC" spec extends the maximum capacity of either a full-size or micro SD card from 2TB to 128TB. And the "Express" spec increases the peak transfer speed of a full-size card from 624MB per second to 985MB per second.

I wasn't even aware that SD cards went up to 2TB
but to jump from that up to 128TB is absolutely ridiculous.

Last card I bought was a 200GB card for the switch, and that cost more than I wanted to pay for it.
I can only imagine what a 128TB card, and much less even a 2TB card must cost.
(Amazon doesn't even list 2TB cards... 512GB cards cost $300, 256GB right around $100)

Hopefully this means solid state prices drop hard and fast.
Switch will reap the benefit as they can hopefully eventually fit the 2TB Final Fantasy XX on a cart w/ practically 0 (zero) load times, No more 3rd party excuses.

And this makes me want to hold out for a new phone even more, as I want to be able to slip an upto 2TB SD card in it. and hopefully with solid state data prices dropping like a rock, my next phone can come with 512GB already on the phone, and I almost never have to worry about my phone running out of space again.

[Adrock]

I thought 128 TB was a typo. Jebus, think of all the porn files you could hold with that much storage. We truly are living in the future.

[Soren]

Hopefully this means solid state prices drop hard and fast.
Switch will reap the benefit as they can hopefully eventually fit the 2TB Final Fantasy XX on a cart w/ practically 0 (zero) load times, No more 3rd party excuses.

You're kidding, right?

[ThePerm]

Wow.

Hope they can get prices down. if 10 years from now you 128TB cost $15.99 we might be fighting robots.

1GB a second is also crazy. Think of the voxel worlds.

[BlackNMild2k1]

Hopefully this means solid state prices drop hard and fast.
Switch will reap the benefit as they can hopefully eventually fit the 2TB Final Fantasy XX on a cart w/ practically 0 (zero) load times, No more 3rd party excuses.

You're kidding, right?

Of course.

Life 3rd parties always find a way


But we headed in the right direction. Death of the Disc Format was always the end goal, but a necessary side venture for progress.

[BranDonk Kong]

Saw this yesterday...pretty f'ing crazy.

[nickmitch]

****, that's pretty crazy.

[ShyGuy]

If the price has came down enough this fall when we have cloud saves, I may try to jump from a 128gb to 256gb or better.

[NWR_insanolord]

Saves are stored on the internal memory of the system, so upgrading cards has no effect on it. I had to redownload all my games, but once I did the saves were right there.