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Thread ID: 109779 2010-05-22 10:09:00 2TB SD Cards... radium (8645) PC World Chat
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887210 2010-05-22 10:09:00 Here www.wired.com radium (8645)
887211 2010-05-22 10:15:00 awesome. i heard there is a 3tb hard drive coming out too. lance4k (4644)
887212 2010-05-22 12:42:00 awesome. i heard there is a 3tb hard drive coming out too.

Yea it has some limits though. Cant be used as boot drive and can only be used on 64 bit win vista and win 7 because of the 512 byte blocks or something.
xyz823 (13649)
887213 2010-05-22 13:03:00 Read the comments. A standard has been devised which would allow a 2TB theoretical maximum.

The picture in the article is of course photoshopped. We still have to wait for the card density to increase at its current rate, which means a while till we see 2TB!
george12 (7)
887214 2010-05-23 14:34:00 Yea it has some limits though. Cant be used as boot drive and can only be used on 64 bit win vista and win 7 because of the 512 byte blocks or something.

512 byte blocks are the standard size.

Some of the new drives use 4k blocks. The new block size only works properly on Vista and Win 7.

If you want to use them on XP, you must run a special "Alignment Tool" before formatting.

I haven't heard anything about them being unbootable....
Agent_24 (57)
887215 2010-05-27 08:27:00 The picture in the article is of course photoshopped. which means a while till we see 2TB!

That's very apparent. good to see the potential growth down the track
radium (8645)
887216 2010-05-27 08:32:00 Yep, with 2 of those you could have most of the major bugfixes and service packs for Vista ;) R2x1 (4628)
887217 2010-05-27 08:54:00 Did anyone else actually read it and see that it doesn't actually exist yet? And that the pic is photoshopped. Badly. pine-o-cleen (2955)
887218 2010-05-27 08:55:00 Yep, with 2 of those you could have most of the major bugfixes and service packs for Vista ;)
Well, this months worth anyway! :rolleyes:
KarameaDave (15222)
887219 2010-05-27 09:01:00 "Of course, you can’t buy a 2TB card right now. Instead, SDXC is the new spec from the SD Association which allows a theoretical maximum of 2TB"

Read More www.wired.com
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