Two-Terabyte Flash Card - Coming Soon

People who love new technology may be thrilled to hear about a new Microsoft technology that will be available soon. Digital memory storage is a mainstay in today's world. Digital still cameras, digital video cameras, Blackberrys, iPhones, high-end cell phone, portable video game consoles, mp3 players ... a host of applications we use everyday depend on digital memory storage devices. The SD memory card is one of the most popular formats.

For those of us who use them on a regular basis, they become portable hard drives for us and soon become filled with priceless bits of information and treasures (although it be only to us) that we can not part with. Which means we run out of space on them and God forbid we delete any of their content, so if something happens, i.e., a special photo session presents itself and our nearly filled SD memory card is all there is, some of that photographic events may be missed because we only have the capacity for a limited number of digital photographic.

Well Microsoft to the rescue. The day is close at hand when your digital device will run out of battery power a number of times before you run out of digital storage capacity on the new SDXC memory cards. How about two terabytes of storage capacity? Can you imagine that, two terabytes of storage capacity on a device slightly larger than a quarter? Less than 10 years ago, two terabytes of storage capacity would have required a 10'x12' air conditioned room with a dedicated electrical power supply and at least 2 technicians to monitor the drives regularly. That's incredible.

How can this be done? Current SD digital memory cards store their files using the old FAT32 filing system. The FAT32 filing system generally splits the media you save to it into small pieces and place them in random locations on the card. The result is slow retrieval and saves of your data to and from the SD memory card. This also limits the saving capacity of a SD memory card to 32 gigabytes (which I was very happy with until I heard this new news. Microsoft has created a SD eXtended Capacity (SDXC) card that changes that.

The SD eXtended Capacity (SDXC) card features the new Microsoft exFAT filing system which enables larger storage capacity and faster data retrieval. Microsoft's exFAT filing system saves data in one piece in an organized way that makes them quicker and easier to find by your digital device. Before the two terabyte capacity will be available, transistor manufacturers will have to scale down the transistors (the circuits that physically store data) a little more. That is no problem, that research and development is always on going and new discoveries in that arena are announced every year.

Panasonic will promote the first SDXC memory storage card this year. It will have 64 gigabytes of storage capacity and a read/write speed 10 times faster than the current SD memory cards on the market. But sooner than you think you we will have enough digital storage space to hold 480 hours of high definition video on a quarter size memory card. Wow! I was impressed with the one terabyte hard drive book...what was I thinking?