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Miracles do happen: Sony finalizes 2TB Memory Stick
At first, I thought I had misread the numbers, but Sony's not kidding when it says there are 2TB memory sticks on the way. That's right, we're talking about terabytes here, in a thin, narrow flash drive shorter than your little finger (that pic above is a simulation of how the product might look). Besides some of the varieties of the new drives using a much more efficient file system called exFAT, there are no other details about how Sony manages to shoehorn such an ocean of data onto such a tiny form factor.
Sony bragged about monster memory sticks like this at CES 2009, but now the company has finalized specifications for this Memory Stick XT series. This means these products might soon see the light of day, but Sony's not talking about any release dates yet. We'll believe it when we see it.
More good news: The Memory Stick XT line will probably be backward-compatible with those devices that use Sony Memory Sticks. And to think, less than three years ago, we were impressed with the possibility of a 32GB Memory Stick. Remarkable.
Sony Insider, via Engadget
By Ed at 2:04 PM ON 08/05/09
Wow, how is this even possible! 2TB...
But, if it uses exFAT, then I can't use this for my camera, PSP, and other gadgets currently owned by me because they won't be formatted correctly.
By BobBobson108 at 2:10 PM ON 08/05/09
To Ed:
Not necessarily. Sandisk announced that their TB SDXC cards would be backwards compatible with the SDHC readers. Sony might be doing the same thing.
By Xanapus at 2:21 PM ON 08/05/09
I wonder how much something like this would cost. It would be awesometastic if I could use this in my PSP. I would never have to leave the house again to buy a video game. Especially if they stop selling the PSP games (PSP Go). I could finally buy all those movies for my PSP that I wanted to buy.
By junijihandes at 2:48 PM ON 08/05/09
Buddy - you need to do some homework on Memory Stick (and SD for that matter).
There is a vast difference between the "format maximum capacity" and actual shipping capacity. NAND technology is on a 16GB, 32GB, 64GB trend in the next few years - regardless of what the memory card providers are touting as maximum capacity. DO SOME HOMEWORK.
Who photoshopped the PRO-HG??
By DieCortana91 at 2:14 AM ON 08/06/09
*twitch twitch *drool
By Pxndxz at 3:54 PM ON 08/06/09
O.o holy crap!!! screw you junjihandes!! technology is way advanced as it is today! if you dont believe it then screw you!! but i do!! look what happened to the ipod!! now theres a 120GB ipod!! where as like 2 years ago there was only a 30GB, then there was a 60GB and then an 80GB!! NEXT HERE WILL PROBABLY BE LIKE A 320GB IPOD!! IF NOT THEN MAYBE A 1TB!! IMAGINE THAT!! like i said earlier technology is advanced as it is now... so i do believe this!! oh!! and dont forget that 16GB thumb drive!! that thing is tiny!! and it holds that much!! so screw you junijihandes!!
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By biggig at 12:41 PM ON 08/07/09
Why can't they make PC's with that much memory on board the processor, much less main memory or cache.
By psn djnoman4 at 3:14 PM ON 08/07/09
Cool i hope sony update psp to run on psp.
By GermanCrazyGoat at 12:42 AM ON 08/10/09
DUDE AWSOME AS F*** LUV THIS WANT ONE NOW
By zero2x at 8:09 PM ON 08/10/09
Could be very useful on netbooks in a few or more years when they both come down in price due to the economy of scale and the release of even newer technology.
By BLAHHH at 8:31 AM ON 09/28/09
WTF. Photoshop.....
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