First memory card with 1 TB of storage now available
Tuesday 15 January 2019, 20:02 by Michelle Peeters | 5,162 views | 4 commentsThis article was translated from Dutch with the help of AI. Read the original.
Manufacturer Lexar has released the first memory card with 1 terabyte of storage. It is a Class 10 card with UHS-I for use in cameras, among other devices. The price is 500 dollars.
The memory card is available in the United States, but it is also coming to Europe. When is not yet known. The price in the United States is 500 dollars in any case. Until now, Lexar cards only went up to 512GB, although they cost 300 euros in the Benelux.
The specs of the new card match those of the 633x series cards. The new card can write data at up to 70 megabytes per second and read at 95 megabytes per second.
Incidentally, several other manufacturers announced a 1 terabyte card at the recent CES show.
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Michelle Peeters is fotografe en oprichter van DeuxBleus Fotografie. Michelle herkent het bijzondere in het gewone en het gewone in het bijzondere. Ze heeft zich nooit willen specialiseren en is daardoor van alle markten thuis.
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4 comments
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Huub wrote on Wednesday 16 January 2019 at 10:24 | replywow...1TByte. But I wonder whether it's wise to use this kind of card. If it breaks, you'll immediately lose a whole lot. I prefer to use somewhat smaller cards just to be safe.
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Michelle Peeters wrote on Wednesday 16 January 2019 at 11:36
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@Huub: yes, you do have a point there!
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ErikvanRosmalen
wrote on Thursday 17 January 2019 at 07:42
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Agree with Huub, but I also don't believe Lexar is targeting the 'regular' photographer with this, but rather different kinds of work. Video in particular, especially when you see that 4K is increasingly becoming the standard and 8K is also already gaining ground. If you're going to do that with drones or cameras that need to keep running for a long time, you actually do want a larger format, of course.
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But... wasn't Sandisk already the first with a 1TB card a few years ago, Michelle? I seem to remember something like that, but maybe it remained a prototype back then? -
Paul Oosterlaak wrote on Friday 18 January 2019 at 22:28
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A card that is this large and this slow isn't really interesting. Unless you make very long recordings in 4K (22 hours at 100 Mbit/s), such a card is fairly pointless. For applications where 1 TB cards are useful (RAW video, for example), a much higher minimum speed is important (100 MB/s, for example).
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