from the is-that-the-library-of-congress-in-your-pocket-or... dept
The trade group behind the SD memory card format today announced a new standard, called SDXC, that will support memory cards
of up to 2 terabytes for devices like digital cameras and cell phones. While the amount of storage that can be crammed into smaller and smaller physical formats continues to grow, the idea of being able to carry around 2 terabytes of data in a device like a smartphone still seems pretty amazing. Combined with the growth of broadband networks, particularly wireless ones, are we nearing a point where the accessibility of data will no longer be a concern? Between being able to easily carry around most, if not all, of your data and always-on broadband networks making the rest of it constantly accessible, the point at which we can easily access any of our information from any location looks to be just over the horizon. That's not to say that plenty of obstacles remain, including our ever-growing demand for more and more storage space, and the need for more pervasive (and
less restrictive) wireless broadband networks, but those obstacles are becoming less and less formidable all the time.
Filed Under: sdxc, storage
