At last year’s 2010 CES, we saw some exciting potential in SDXC hardware, with promises of 2TB of storage and up to 300MB/s transfer speeds. And now as we pack our bags for CES2011, we’re finally starting to see some tangible progress, albeit small. Lexar Media is taking the wraps off of their latest additions to the SDXC line of hardware with two new cards — a 64 GB and 128 GB option. These class 10 SDXC cards are guaranteed to give users at least 20MB/s, though we’d hope the theoretical maximum is more the norm.
Pricing on these new cards is pretty intense: $399 (64 GB) and $699 (128 GB). Our opinion: Unless you really need the speed, hold off until the summer months. The prices for SD cards and the like drop like rocks dipped in lead after a few months. You could easily save $100-$200 off of one of these new cards if you wait until summer. Just sayin’
When 32GB of pictures just isn’t enough, Toshiba is there to save you. The SDXC cards will feature speeds of 35Mbps and 60 Mbps for write/read respectively. The first samples of said card are due to hit manufacturers’ secret labs this November with the general public getting graced sometime in spring of 2010. While I would much rather have several smaller cards (I cringe at the thought of losing 64 GB worth of data, especially pictures), some people just gotta have it all. Who are you?
Source: Crunch Gear
With the ocean of formats available for what seems like an equally full ocean of different types of cards, you may think oh *expletive* at hearing of another storage format. Fret not fellow readers for it is a backwards compatible format for SD cards dubbed SDXC SD (eXtended Capacity). What is the benefit of these new fangled cards? How about storage up to 2TB! The cards rely on Microsofts exFat file format. A few examples of what you can store on this thing are: 4,000 RAW images, 100HD movies, or 300 hours of HD recording. Transfering all of this data to and fro will occur at a speed 300Mbps rate. Expect the first cards to ship before March with read and write speeds of up to 104Mbps. The 2TB won’t be coming out at launch, but it is coming!
Source: Engadget, Breitbart, Geek *pic*
