Today at CES the SD Association announced a specification for SDXC, or SD eXtended Capacity that “provides up to 2 terabytes storage capacity and accelerates SD interface read/write speeds to 104 megabytes per second this year, with a road map to 300 megabytes per second.” Here is the Press Release. While this might become one vehicle that proves my 2009…
Tag: moore’s law
2009 – The year of super-cheap flash
I don’t want to be a brag but I told you so. 2009 is going to be the year of super cheap very large flash drives. 9 to 5 mac just reported that Amazon is selling a 64GB thumb drive for a mere $78 – with free shipping. I guess it regularly goes for about…
Out with the old, in with the new – part 4
The other day I discussed Apple’s move to DisplayPort on the new MacBooks. Â Their other big news was that they completely dropped firewire on the MacBook, and only have firewire 800 on MacBook Pros. In blogger terms this is old news (over a week ago) and has already been discussed to death by many other…
Out with the old, in with the new – part 3
Moore’s Law (roughly) suggests that electronics double (capacity) every 18 – 24 months. I believe initially it had to do with the size and speed of transistors. Â But it’s held mostly true in my experience for processor speeds and hard drive capacities – every two years you get twice as much for the same price….