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Noah Mayer
03/06/09

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I think that this is great for future netbooks. Why get a heavier, thirstier HDD when now you can plug in SD cards that are now sufficiently fast and have good capacity. In one year, we'll see 64GB and 128GB SDXC cards with 80MB/s read. Nice.

Also, how will CompactFlash compare? Will DSLRs start supporting mainly SDXC? Is there a revision of CF in the works?
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Purple Dave
03/06/09

@Noah Mayer:
I would think there would have to be. I mean, aside from the external specs and interfaces, they're both just flash memory on the inside, right? So any flash memory upgrades that can be fit inside an SD card can fit even more inside a CF card, right? Of course, the other option is to just get a CF-style SD reader so you can use SD cards in everything, but still have the option of using CF cards in the larger cameras if you want.
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RayLast
03/06/09

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ONLY 32GB? You know how many of these you could fit into a 2.5" HD footprint? I think 32GB is pretty good for that form factor.
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Purple Dave
03/06/09

@RayLast:
I was kinda thinking the same thing. Look at how crappy the storage capacity on netbooks and flash-based iPods is. Imagine if they simply redesigning them with SD slots instead of built-in drives.
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ArrEmmDee
03/06/09

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I don't want to spend hundreds of dollars and store Gigabytes of things on something I could easily lose. This is too far ahead of its time to be of any legitimate use and anyone making these can be assigned as idiots.
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IN THE FACE!
03/06/09

@ArrEmmDee: I would venture to say that the majority of people that use SD/SDHC/etc. regularly, really just stick the card in a device and plug the device into computers when they need to ul/dl files. So the card is rarely out on its own.

And furthermore, if you are incapable of hanging on to a ~quarter sized bit of plastic, then I put forth that YOU sir are an idiot. I have several SD cards and a couple of microSD cards, and I have yet to lose one.

Oh, and fcuk you, I'll stand in your lawn if I damn well please!
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fsusmithc2
03/06/09

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Ok this is getting fun. My first compy was a 286 system my dad bought at a local PC shop. 16Mhz and I believe a 40mb HDD. The ram was measured in kb back then but I don't recall how much. We even put a 287 math co-processor in that thing! I have fond memories of dear old dad teaching me the ropes of DOS and BASIC and him trying to keep me from playing Police Quest because of the "adult situations".

If you think SDHC/XC has an impressive size/cap spec, what about Micro SDHC eh? My phone has a 2gb but don't they go up to at least 8gb now? On a piece of PCB not much bigger than a fingernail. Wow really just doesn't cover it. Be lucky friends that we live in this exciting time. Who knows when the technology plateau will be reached but I don't think any time soon. We still have teleporters, flying cars, and warp drives to invent.
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Keni:Would people stop doing this now!!!:
03/06/09

@fsusmithc2: They go up to 16 now =D
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IN THE FACE!
03/06/09

@AznSlackerType: Supposedly 32gb microSDs are available in Asia, but I have not been able to confirm that as of yet.
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CatboyMac's angry girlfriend
03/06/09

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Man, my first Computer had a 20gb hard drive. I still have that hard drive today.

How utterly useless now, lol.
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MikeSWelch
03/06/09

@CatboyMac's angry girlfriend: Its kinda funny how you can tell people's age based on what size HD their first computer had.

My first computer was an Apple IIGS - no hard drive there.

My second computer had a 230MB hard drive.
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ryujiikata
03/06/09

@CatboyMac's angry girlfriend: Oh man, that big? My first computer was a big hunk of junk that my uncle had written a DOS shell to boot the programs for me. I think my next computer, the ye olde Acer laptop, had maybe 75 MB HD space. When my grandpa got a PC with Windows 95 and 1 GB HD space, I nearly shit myself.
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shinchan
03/06/09

@ryujiikata: I still have a 3gb and a 4gb hdd lying around for no utter reason.

And an old 286, which still works, can't remember how much space it has, but not more than 100mb.

Then I look at my 15x10mm 8gb microsd card lying on the table and I'm simply impressed at how fast technology evolves.
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GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
03/06/09

@shinchan: The 6gb drive on my mac started dying, so I had to clone it onto a 10gb drive, as that was the smallest I could find.
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IN THE FACE!
03/06/09

@CatboyMac's angry girlfriend: On my first computer, I had to chisel the bits onto the platter by hand, and spin the platter with a foot crank...
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ripfire
03/06/09

@bpapa9013: The closest thing I came to that would are the punch cards.
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ripfire
03/06/09

@ripfire: Oh I did NOT just type that.
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not_a_virus.exe.vbs
03/06/09

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Does the X stand for EXTREEEEEEEEEEM!!!?
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GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
03/06/09

@Life Is Eat And Die: Xtreeeeeme to da max!!
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not_a_virus.exe.vbs
03/06/09

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So they should work on standard SDHC readers correct?
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