SD cards could soon hold 128TB of storage
A story by Dani Deahl in the Verge talks about a new standard for SD cards bring them up to a whopping 128TB. However, don’t look for it for sale anytime soon.
Right now the maximum storage space on an SD card is 2TB, and that limit was promised as far back as 2009, but still hasn’t been reached. In 2016, SanDisk unveiled a prototype 1 terabyte SD card that would make it the biggest in the world, but it’s still not available to purchase. At the time, SanDisk said that the advancement was necessary to match ever-increasing data-heavy formats like 4K video and VR. However, creating SD cards with massive amounts of storage is cost-prohibitive. SanDisk’s 512GB SD card used to cost $800, and though it’s dropped in price, is still priced around $300.
It does show as we create more and more data the need to protect it has never been greater.


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