Sony and SanDisk working on 2TB Memory Sticks

Damian Koh | Jan 30, 2009

That's 2,000GB or 2,000,000MB of flash storage for noobs.

The Memory Sticks don't have an official name yet and the two companies are temporarily calling them collectively as "Memory Stick format for Extended High Capacity". Format licensing is expected to begin this year. Once completed, we'll see storage capacities for these flash media (Memory Stick Pro DUO, Memory Stick Pro-HG, Memory Stick Micro and Memory Stick HG Micro) hit up to 2 terabytes with maximum data transfer rates of 20MB/s (on 4-bit parallel interface) and 60MB/s (on 8-bit parallel interface) for the HG card formats.

Sony is also announcing today the availability of 16GB Memory Stick Micro (M2) cards. These will be available in Asia Pacific starting next month and are bundled with a USB adapter, though there's also an option to purchase the flash card separately.

According to the Japanese outfit, the 16GB M2 card comes with a five-year warranty and can withstand temperatures from minus 25 degrees Celsius to 85 degrees Celsius. The supplied adapter doesn't support the MagicGate content protection technology, though. We are still checking with Sony Ericsson to find out which phones are compatible with the new 16GB card and will update once we have the information.

Update: According to Sony Ericsson, only the C905 Cyber-shot has been tested to support the 16GB M2 memory card. The company added that most devices are designed to support up to 32GB flash media and it will be compiling a list of devices compatible with the new 2TB cards.

Filed under: Digital Cameras, Mobile Phones
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montbkk

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montbkk says...
This is good news. Someone recently suggested I consider this type of storage to be used as part of my backup strategy rather than using tape......this idea is looking better and more practicable as capacities continue to increase.

Feb 01, 2009 12:34