SanDisk introduces 1TB memory card at Photokina 2016

One terabyte hard drives are nothing new and have actually started getting cheaper what with 4TB drives being made available. But a 1TB memory card is sure to catch anyone’s attention.

This monster capacity memory card was just announced Tuesday at Photokina in Cologne, Germany. Officially tagged as the SanDisk 1TB SDXC, it is a prototype memory card that was developed to address the growing trend of 4K and 8K resolution multimedia content.

Back in 2014, SanDisk also made headlines as it first introduced the 512GB SanDisk Extreme PRO SDXC UHS-I memory card, also at Photokina. It’s remarkable how the company has been able to double the capacity of its memory card in just a couple of years.

Apart from the storage of ultra-high-resolution multimedia, SanDisk also sees application of this high-capacity storage media in the growing virtual reality industry.

No word yet has been made available regarding price and availability, and it may still be a few months before the memory card becomes available in the market.  Alfred Bayle

source: technology.inquirer.net

32TB SSD from Samsung presented at Flash Memory Summit

Seagate’s 60TB 3.5-inch SSD may be out of everyone’s reach for an indefinite period but fear not, because Samsung may have a solution. Introducing the 2.5-inch form factor 32TB SSD.

PCWorld reports that this SSD, which was unveiled at the Flash Memory Summit currently being held in Santa Clara, California, USA, is the first of its kind to be based on 4th-generation V-NAND technology. This particular technology utilizes a three-dimensional architecture to greatly increase storage capacity without exponentially ramping up costs.

Apart from the extra-large capacity, 4th-gen SSDs will also have higher sequential read-and-write performance than its predecessor. For more information on 3D V-NAND technology, check out the video after this article.

Samsung plans to ship the 32TB SSDs next year and is targeting to have 100TB SSDs in the market by 2020. The 32TB drive will primarily be targeted for use in servers, flash arrays and external storage systems. However, the drive will not be compatible with NVMe slots.

Samsung also announced the new Z-SSD, a NAND flash for use as cache or temporary storage in data centers. It has faster sequential read speed and four times lower latency than the previous Samsung PM963 NVMe SSD.

Samsung also said it is working with other companies in creating a new form factor for servers that will provide more storage, power control circuits and accelerator chips. Alfred Bayle

source: technology.inquirer.net