2 Terabyte Compactflash!?!?!

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Just read an article informing us that Sandisk, Sony, and Nikon have announced the joint development of a CompactFlash with a capacity of, and i quote 2 Terabytes, and proposed transfer rate of 500MB per second!!! I'm sure that card will be cheap, not!!!
 
OutLore said:
Ha - and still going to run it down a USB2 connection!!
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LOL! Firewire??? Seriously, though. I wonder how dear it would be???
 
Trouble is thats an awful lot of pics your going to loose when it goes belly up!
 
swanseamale47 said:
Trouble is thats an awful lot of pics your going to loose when it goes belly up!
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Tell me about it! I won't use anything more than 16GB cards, myself!:thumbsdown:
 
to give you an idea on price, I saw a 128GB sandisk CF card today for just over £1k !!

That's pretty impressive if they can cram that much into such a small space tbh
 
Olly_K said:
to give you an idea on price, I saw a 128GB sandisk CF card today for just over £1k !!

That's pretty impressive if they can cram that much into such a small space tbh
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lol - where was that?
 
Things like the Red One and such use CF cards. It makes sense that they would want a 2TB card.
 
formula400 said:
what is it with these comments, do people just take all these nice pictures and leave them on the card, never to put them on a pc to see them on a 21'' screen????
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In essence, i kind of agree with your statement, however, why would you buy a 2 Terabyte card if you wasn't going to at least half fill it? otherwise, Why buy a 2 Terabyte card in the first place? The fact is, if i had one, i'd always be worried it may become corrupt, losing a hell of a lot of potentially unrecoverable work!:thumbsdown:
 
wilko said:
In essence, i kind of agree with your statement, however, why would you buy a 2 Terabyte card if you wasn't going to at least half fill it? otherwise, Why buy a 2 Terabyte card in the first place? The fact is, if i had one, i'd always be worried it may become corrupt, losing a hell of a lot of potentially unrecoverable work!:thumbsdown:
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Agreed, I think it is probably only suitable for the kinds of work that will require alot of space or quick save rate to be of any use. For instance if you were recording full HD on a professional camera for a lengthy scene?... :shrug:
 
Shutter said:
Agreed, I think it is probably only suitable for the kinds of work that will require alot of space or quick save rate to be of any use. For instance if you were recording full HD on a professional camera for a lengthy scene?... :shrug:
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They are thinking about releasing the same for the SD cards, which for the average consumer does just leave on the card permanently as they don't want to have to find them on the computer later and can show friends wherever they are.
 
I think you're reading more into it than is there. It sounds like it will be a new format, based on PCI-e which won't be backwards compatible. Plus, they are only working on the specs for, not actually delivering devices that can do 2Tb yet ;)
 
viewfromthenorth said:
as flash memory has no moving parts, so won't decay (for the lack of a better word) like disk drives.
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Flash memory does "decay" - just look up wear levelling which is needed to ensure that optimum use of the flash device is available. Flash only has a limited number of write cycles...
 
I would bet that by the time this is out, you run of the mill DSLR will be producing 100Gp images and a 2TB card will hold 200!!
 
They've got a while yet to get that kind of speed and capacity in a CF card they is only just a PCI-E Raid SSD that can do that speed and size and that uses 4 SSDs in raid to achieve the speed all strapped to a PCIE card so CF with 2TB & 500mb/s is a few years out yet.

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amnesia said:
USB3 is out now ;)
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:thumbs:. I am waiting for an MBP with USB3 and HDD + card reader that will benefit from it.

2TB is not that much if you shoot a longer movie with 5DII successor, or perhaps do a day long shooting with next gen 12fps 30MP 1D camera

Just a few years some noob said 640kb was all we'd need.
 
In 1997/98 when Windows NT 4.0 hit the market, one of the MSPs was NTFS which was cited as the first filing system to be able to have 2TB partitions.

The marketing was frequently laughed about at the time, because nobody could envisage a domestic, let alone a corporate system that would require overheads so huge. After all, who would be stupid enough to commit such vast amounts of data onto just one system and how could there possibly be a need for such an amount of data storage?

Fast forward 12 years and a domestic system supporting 2TB+ is, if not common, frequently used.
 
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kiteninja said:
They've got a while yet to get that kind of speed and capacity in a CF card they is only just a PCI-E Raid SSD that can do that speed and size and that uses 4 SSDs in raid to achieve the speed all strapped to a PCIE card so CF with 2TB & 500mb/s is a few years out yet.

4 SSD Raid PCIE article
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:eek: In English? LOL!!
 
Been reading the same bs and nonsense for the past 12 years.

1998: Oh I'd never use an 8MB (megabyte) card in case I lose my images...

2004: I'd never use a 1GB card in case I lose my images ...

Ive been using a 32gb Transcend CF card in my D700 for the past 2 and a half years - no hassle.
 
daugirdas said:
:thumbs:. Just a few years some noob said 640kb was all we'd need.
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I can do much better than that. When I first started in computing, almost thirty years ago, an IBM system 36 would happily support twenty or so users with just 256kb.
 
alexhcowley said:
I can do much better than that. When I first started in computing, almost thirty years ago, an IBM system 36 would happily support twenty or so users with just 256kb.
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Some customers think that's still the way it works :shake:
 
neil_g said:
that video always makes me laugh.. boasting about defrag speed. yeah, great.. way to trash your SSD.
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When you have a RAID array of 24 SSD disks, I'll let you worry about whether to defrag or not ;)
 
It's a card that's designed for high res cameras both still and video, mainly high definition video from the likes of RED cameras. also bear in mind that MF cameras use CF cards so that's another market and with rumours that Canon have fitted over 100 megapixels on a sensor then this card technology is truely designed for the future of photography and film rather than what we are used to at present.
 
Rikki said:
Been reading the same bs and nonsense for the past 12 years.

1998: Oh I'd never use an 8MB (megabyte) card in case I lose my images...

2004: I'd never use a 1GB card in case I lose my images ...

Ive been using a 32gb Transcend CF card in my D700 for the past 2 and a half years - no hassle.
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ditto

been using large cards for ages now and never had a problem... I have had a good few PC hard drives gone belly up but touch wood never a CF or SD card
 
They're proposing it as a new standard to allow for future capacity expansion. That doesn't mean they'll be making them any time soon. Much as happened with the move from SDHC to SDXC, the standard appeared a few years before the cards, and it'll be quite a while before SDXC cards reach their capacity limit.

When they do come out, they better not be formatted FAT32! :D
 
Well, let me check out a couple of my CF purchases...:

1) Oct 2010. 48MB CF @ £160 (http://www.photobyove.com/blog/?page_id=37) for a 2 megapixel camera
2) March 2010. 32GB CF @ £80 for a 17 megapixel camera

I recon that's a devil of a 666 x increase in storage capacity while halving (not counting inflation) the price. Not bad :thumbs:

2020 should see me with a >20TB CF card @ £40 for my 144 megapixel camera if this holds, but then I'm crap at maths :thinking: ...
 
I've used cf cards for the past 12 years and never had one fail on me (even the credit card sized 160mb ones.) Maybe I've been lucky....2tb is fine if you are shooting loads of video but sounds more like a marketing exercise to me, although if it means crossover technology leading to faster sd cards then that would be a plus in my books.
 
ohansen said:
1) Oct 2010. 48MB CF @ £160
2) March 2010. 32GB CF @ £80
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2020 should see me with a >20TB CF card @ £40 for my 144 megapixel camera if this holds, but then I'm crap at maths :thinking: ...
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And dates by the look of it!!!
 
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