[Technology] SanDisk Teases Protoype 1TB SD Card

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SanDisk Teases Protoype 1TB SD Card
from PC Magazine

The fight for more storage is on at SanDisk.

The company on Tuesday unveiled a prototype SanDisk 1TB SDXC card. The card doubles the size of the 512GB SanDisk Extreme Pro that SanDisk introduced in 2014, and according to the company, could be ideal in a world where higher-resolution video is becoming increasingly popular among those shooting virtual-reality content and footage in 4K and even 8K.

"Just a few short years ago the idea of a 1TB capacity point in an SD card seemed so futuristic – it's amazing that we're now at the point where it's becoming a reality," Sam Nicholson, CEO at Stargate Studios said in a statement. "With the growing demand for applications like VR, we can certainly use 1TB when we're out shooting continuous high-quality video. High-capacity cards allow us to capture more without interruption, streamlining our workflow, and eliminating the worry that we may miss a moment because we have to stop to swap out cards."

It's admittedly been a bit of a slog to get to 1TB of storage on an SD card. SanDisk noted that the company unveiled the first 64MB SD card in 2000. Since then, it's slowly but surely amped up its offerings.

SanDisk, which is owned by Western Digital, didn't say when the 1TB SD card might launch and how much it will cost. However, the company touted it as a crowning achievement as it tries to one-up itself each year.

"Over the years our goal has remained the same; continue to innovate and set the pace for the imaging industry," Western Digital content solutions business unit vice president Dinesh Bahal said in a statement. "The SanDisk 1TB SD card prototype represents another significant achievement as growth of high-resolution content and capacity-intensive applications such as virtual reality, video surveillance and 360 video, are progressing at astounding rates."

The 1TB SanDisk card is on display at the Photokina conference in Cologne, Germany (Hall 02.1 Stand A014), which Jim Fisher is covering for PCMag. Check out more from the show in the slideshow above.