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SD cards finally expected to hit 4TB in 2025 (arstechnica.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Western Digital will launch the SD card, which follows the SD Association's Secure Digital Ultra Capacity (SDUC) standard, under its SanDisk brand and market it toward "complex media and entertainment workflows," such as high-resolution video with high framerates, using cameras and laptops, the announcement said.

The spacious card will use the Ultra High Speed-1 (UHS-1) bus interface, supporting max theoretical transfer rates of up to 104 MB per second.

"Attendees will get a preview of the 4TB SD card’s full capacity and learn more about how it will expand the creative possibilities for cameras and laptops," Western Digital said.

Western Digital didn't say what the SD card would cost, but with its advanced capabilities and targeted audience of professional creators, the offering will likely have premium pricing.

However, Western Digital's announcement also comes as SanDisk's reputation for reliable storage is in serious question by professional and long-time customers.

These alleged failures, combined with frustration around Western Digital's limited response to reported data losses, could have professionals with work-critical storage needs consider waiting for another brand to make the leap to 4TB.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (11 children)

Who need that much storage on their phone? Honestly asking.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

I have 128gb SD on my phone and it's alway full.

Partly a mismanagement issue, but my music library at home is more than 120gb. I'd rather just carry my full library - why not? Storage is cheap.

Then there's video. I prefer pulling video on wifi, rather than stream and burn data. Again, why not? Storage is WAY cheaper than cell data. And I'm being a good neighbor by leaving bandwidth available for other uses.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Me. I am basically trying to squeeze the desktop ^(PC)^ out of my phone, so there's a lot of "unnecessary" stuff.

For example, I am currently deciding whether to keep the 110GB of DVD ISO files which I can stream from my phone using VLC (on client side) which are served by nginx server from my phone (this way I still get all menus, just like with a physical DVD) or delete it and replace it with equally sized 110GB EN Wikipedia maxi .zim package, install kiwix-tools on Termux and set up nginx on Termux to serve as revese proxy to kiwix-serve so I could also host a mirror of the whole English Wikipedia, including (downscaled) images on my phone. I guess that sounds cooler than DVDs.
Or I should get a 512GB SD card and keep both.
I can't afford 1TB one.

But yeah, that's just one example. My 256GB SD card is about to pop while my video and music collection (The latter of which which is also served using Navidrome server in Termux 🙂. For videos I just use nginx with material fancyindex theme.) keeps growing.
I already have to keep some stuff on phone's internal storage.

Termux is godsent. Otherwise I'd absolutely have to get a PinePhone as I couldn't live with something as locked down as Android or even iOS without a nice terminal emulator.
Alternatively, I could benefit from pocket-sized passively cooled laptop.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Thanks. That sounds pretty cool.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Phones don't have (full size) SD card slots, this is for cameras and such.

[–] Potatos_are_not_friends 2 points 8 months ago

Well I mean, 640KB of memory ought to be enough for anybody.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I won't mind that much storage, the 256GB I have are nearly full.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm using a 128GB phone and it's never full. But I export photos And videos off it once every 6 months. If I didn't I'd need 1TB phone.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Once every 6 months?

So at any one time you could lose 6 months of photos?

Or do you have a regular sync to somewhere, and this is just space freeing?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm not deleting them. They're uploaded to the cloud at the time of creation. I also move them off my phone to my computer every 6 months or so - I do this just in case the upload to the cloud has ever silently failed. I deduplicate the images, so I don't have multiple versions of the same image with different file names.

For me it's not entirely about space. I rarely let the device get more than 2/3rds full. It's also about speed. If I want to pull a photo/video off my phone, it seems sluggish when there are thousandths of files in that one directory.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Ah, yea, I see. Makes sense. Minimizes your risk while also minimizing your effort to manage them.

Yea, I don't mind having photos on my phone, but managing them is far easier on a pc. So like you, mine all sync to my PC instantly, then when I feel like it I spend some time there cleaning them up (and the changes sync back).

Since the PC has Crashplan for backup, and a NAS it syncs too, I feel pretty comfortable my stuff is safe.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What do you use all that storage for?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Apps, photos, audio books, and the OS.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

and the OS

PinePhone?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Nope just plain old Android, haven't gotten around to using something better

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Same. I should have gotten a 512GB Micro SD. "I could never use that much storage." Yeah, I could.

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