Sandisk Announces 16GB and 32GB SD Cards
Mon Feb 4, 2008 6:38PM EST
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While I was visiting the Philips booth during CES, one of the presenters said SD cards with higher capacities were going to be announced this year, and it looks like SanDisk did just that last week during PMA 08 in Las Vegas.
Why should you care? Two reasons come to mind: more megapixels and HD content.
In case you haven't noticed, 10- to 12-megapixel resolution digital cameras are available to consumers at very low prices these days. More megapixels means you need more storage space, even if you don't always take pictures at the highest resolution. Another feature that's going to be big this year in digital cameras is HD video capture. Again, HD content means you need more storage.
The highest capacity SD card today holds 8GB, so buying a 32GB card means you don't have to switch between multiple cards when you're recording. Let's Go Digital says the 32GB SD card will be able to store 8,000 high-resolution pictures or up to 40 hours of video. The card supports read/write speeds of 15MB per second and will be available in April for $349. The site says a 16GB will also be available for $180 and might be available worldwide in March. Pretty exciting stuff.
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2 Posted by pattigoettler on Tue Feb 5, 2008 7:28AM EST Report Abuse
Hey - you can NEVER have too much storage space!! (Of course this means that the "tiny" ones- 2-4GB) will be SUPER cheap!! Yeah!!! Thanks Sandisk!
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3 Posted by rapmetal47 on Tue Feb 5, 2008 7:46PM EST Report Abuse
Thanks Sandisk. Now, if you come up with a affordable,30 gb mmemory stick duo for psp. I'd buy that if it was $200.
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4 Posted by ziapasha2003 on Thu Feb 7, 2008 9:10AM EST Report Abuse
awesome but what will the price range for the 8 gig once the 16 and 32 gig memory cards come. the 8 gig would be good to acquire for a substantial amount of memory but i don't wanna pay over $100.00 for a fragile little memory stick because i own a 2 gig and it's not enough memory for neither is the 4 gig
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5 Posted by kayceefan2000 on Thu Feb 7, 2008 12:23PM EST Report Abuse
It is pretty exciting. But as the saying goes, the larger the capacity, the faster you'll fill it up and go looking for more:-)) One of the problems is the heat generated. I have had a couple of higher capacity cards just lock up, because of the heat.
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1 Posted by alpyne2 on Tue Feb 5, 2008 1:45AM EST Report Abuse
Just make sure what you buy it for can address all that space!