Greybeard Posted September 11, 2006 Share Posted September 11, 2006 Samsung announce the advent of a 64GB Flash memory card capable of storing about 40 DVD movies. http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/09/11/samsung_charge_trap_flash/ Nice little 'stocking filler' for rich geeks this Christmas ? I want one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bikertec Posted September 11, 2006 Share Posted September 11, 2006 The question is what uses compact flash now. I know my camera did some years back but surely its dated now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrinderBloke Posted September 11, 2006 Share Posted September 11, 2006 Most digital SLR cameras still use Compact Flash and with the advent of bigger and bigger sensors, 64Gb CF cards will soon be the norm Grinder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyclone Posted September 11, 2006 Share Posted September 11, 2006 I saw this advertised as well. This is reaching the capacity where it might start to become a serious challenge to traditional hard disks... Flash memory in theory can be accessed far quicker than magnetic media, although not as fast as traditional ram. There are already plans for hard drives that contain some flash ram, the most accessed files (as determined by the OS) are written to the flash space, these files are then accessed far quicker than normal disk reads and the whole process of using the pc (particularly booting it I suspect) becomes faster. The main disadvantage of flash is a limited number of write cycles, but the announcement today sounds like that may no longer be an issue! So you could actually have several hundred gig of solid state memory in your pc instead of a harddrive... nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghozer Posted September 11, 2006 Share Posted September 11, 2006 Its been done though, i cant remember where i saw it, but there was a company who had managed to get 90Gb's on solid state, on something the size of a $1 coin (approx 2pence size in the UK) - they said first tests showed a write cycle life of around 500 million writes.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greybeard Posted September 11, 2006 Author Share Posted September 11, 2006 These look like an ideal alternative to the HDD in twin-tuner Freeview/Sky recorders, and with up to 40 hours DV capacity could replace a lot of the mechanical gubbins in video cameras. A 32GB card would be equivalent to 20 DV-Mini tapes. I imagine though that they'll be pretty expensive for a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greybeard Posted September 11, 2006 Author Share Posted September 11, 2006 The question is what uses compact flash now. I know my camera did some years back but surely its dated now. I thought CF was just a packaging/connection format ? There seems to be a multitude of formats these days..SD, mini SD, XD, MMC, USB stick; - don't they all use the same kind of memory ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyclone Posted September 12, 2006 Share Posted September 12, 2006 yes, they all use the same type of flash memory under the plastic. Ghozer - was that solid state that required power to maintain it's state, or like flash would it retain it indefinitely without power? The latter is obviously needed for storage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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