Is your memory card big enough

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Electronics giant Samsung has shown off what it claims is the world's most powerful chip for use in memory cards.
The 64 gigabit (Gb) chips could be used to make flash memory, commonly used in MP3 players, capable of holding the equivalent of 80 DVDs, the firm said.
The chips are built using circuits with a minimum feature size of just 30 billionths of a metre (nanometre).
Rival firm Toshiba has said it is also working with similar technology. Both firms will release products in 2009.
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64 Gb that should last a day shooting :lol:
 
Shouldn't that be gigabYte - seems quite a few places are reporting it as gigabit but Samsung's own site seems to know the difference at least ;)
 
64gb would be an insane amount of photos to loose. I can't imagine any current use for this sized CF card in my camera, but I could in an iPod.
 
petemc said:
64gb would be an insane amount of photos to loose. I can't imagine any current use for this sized CF card in my camera, but I could in an iPod.
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That's a good point Pete and the reason I only have 1GB cards ;)
 
I bought a 8Gb card with my new D200 and even on RAW I get 400 pictures! 64Gb is insane I would rather have a few 8Gb cards!
 
I got 900 shots on a 4GB card so I could get 14,400 shots on a 64gb card.:eek:

Is this just pushing barriers for the sake of pushing barriers or is there a real practical use for such a card?
 
Shogun said:
Is this just pushing barriers for the sake of pushing barriers or is there a real practical use for such a card?
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BBC News site" said:
Combining 16 chips would allow 128GB devices, the company said, making Flash a rival to hard drives.
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I think that's the real reason. Laptops with out any moving parts (well ok a fan), or maybe an easily expandable storage system.
 
There are already laptops in production using solid state flash memory. The good old UK army has ordered up a bunch as they are more reliable out in a war zone.

I don't know if there is any production desktops on the go using it yet but I certainly read not that long ago that a few manufacturers were incorporating it. It would basically be a dual-drive system though. The flash drive would hold the operating system and a bog standard SATA drive would be there for all your apps and data.
 
Pooks said:
[...] It would basically be a dual-drive system though. The flash drive would hold the operating system and a bog standard SATA drive would be there for all your apps and data.
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Why?
That seems to negate the benefits of Massive Solid State memory.
 
I use one 4gb card and 2 2gb's. I can't imagine using more than 4gb for fear of loosing so many images. Plus, I'm really getting to the point where I'm going to need a drawer just full of hard drives and some sort of second system for just automatically backing up raws/tiffs/jpegs etc. Introducing a card capable of holding 64gb would cripple me :P.
 
Be useful for video - we have Video cameras that have expansion slots for 4 CF cards - with current sized cards that's only about 30-45 minutes of broadcast-quality footage - that's why this is a good thing. Plus for all the other things, like SatNav units (how many maps would Sir Like?) PDA-Computers and MP3 Players.
Using 2 camera bodies, I use 4 4Gb Sandisk CF cards with 4 2Gb and 2 1Gb cards as back-up. I seldom even get to the 2Gb cards on a job.
 
Look at the continual increase in the size in megapixels of camera sensors and how long before the 64gb card becomes nessacry.

Agreed at the moment a bit excessive, but how long before it became standard?
 
It's not only the increase in megapixels but also bit depth that will eat the storage space up...
 
I'm happy with my 2 x 2GB cards at the moment, although pxl8 is right - bit depth will make a big difference.
 
4GB is my max for CF and 2GB for SD - thats still 6GBs per camera and i have 4 of each card. I'm a little wary of losing data but, fortunately, 24GB is more than enough for a few days!!! Even for Mr Snaphappy!

I believe i get something in the region of 220 shots on the CF's - thats over 6 rolls of film :shrug:
 
Pooks said:
It would basically be a dual-drive system though. The flash drive would hold the operating system and a bog standard SATA drive would be there for all your apps and data.
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You mean like my old BBC Micro, where the operating system was in a ROM and other large software was available on ROMs too :lol: , no need to worry about virus in those days.
 
W.Smith said:
Why?
That seems to negate the benefits of Massive Solid State memory.
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Read speeds on solid state are superb, but write speeds are pretty slow at the moment. The technology will catch up though. The hard drive has been the performance bottleneck in desktops, laptops and servers for so long now ,it's about time

Bring on holographic/optical media and also biomolecular cell storage drives
 
There are a number of solid state hard drives being released now. Toms hardware guide did a recent evaluation of a single and dual drive system.

See - "Solid state disc drives are here"

http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/08/13/flash_based_hard_drives_cometh/

They are a faster than normal drives for reads and a little slower for writes but getting quicker.

As for memory size isn't there a wide or medium format camera with 38 mega pixels and 32bit colour - That would take about 800 on a 64Gb card!
 
cowasaki said:
There are a number of solid state hard drives being released now. Toms hardware guide did a recent evaluation of a single and dual drive system.

See - "Solid state disc drives are here"

http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/08/13/flash_based_hard_drives_cometh/

They are a faster than normal drives for reads and a little slower for writes but getting quicker.

As for memory size isn't there a wide or medium format camera with 38 mega pixels and 32bit colour - That would take about 800 on a 64Gb card!
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Those are 2.5" & 3.5" drives, not as small as the one linked to on BBC. http://www.overclockers.co.uk have the 3.5" drives in stock
 
when they come out, you,ll have to sell your camera to afford one.
we use a 4 gig each doing weddings and have a 2 and a 1 each as backup. we shoot raw , and seldom use more than the 4 each. only when doing full day and night reception.
can you imagine a card that big failing. oh sh......
 
As others have said above, in 5-10 years time 64Gb will be small potatos in terms of camera file size. My first CF card was 16mb and held about 30 images, I'd need over 200mb now for the same amount.

I think the real benefit of this is going to be in hard drives, how many of these chips could they stack in the space a current hd takes up? no moving parts, no noise, much less heat, a fraction of the power usage...
 
I agree with the Wow! I'd drive people mad with photo's if I had that much room!

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