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Version 7.0 of the SD standard finally raises the storage limit to above 2 TB, which was being rapidly approached by both full size SD cards (1 TB) and microSD cards (512 GB). It also adds an SD Express mode, which can raise speeds up to 985 MB/s, from a previous limit of 624 MB/s:
Soon you will be able to purchase new SD cards with the SD Version 7.0 specification. The new specification supports up to 985MB/s of throughput, which comes courtesy of PCIe and NVMe interfaces, and up to 128TB of capacity. That's quite the jump over the current 2TB limit.
985MB/s of throughput for a simple SD card may seem ludicrous, but higher-resolution video, VR, automotive use-cases, and IoT applications are steadily encroaching upon the performance limits of today's products.
[...] The specification has reserved space for new pins for future use, so it also provides room for forward progress (PDF). The specification also accommodates up to 1.8W of power consumption, which will help boost performance. The NVMe 1.3 protocol also brings several new features to SD cards, like Host Memory Buffer (HMB), which sets aside a small portion of system memory to boost performance, and Multi-Queue support, which improves performance during simultaneous file transfers.
Press release. Also at PetaPixel.
Previously: Western Digital Demos SD Card Using PCIe Gen 3 x1 Interface for 880 MB/s Read Speed
(Score: 1, Troll) by Arik on Thursday June 28 2018, @04:24AM (16 children)
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 3, Funny) by FatPhil on Thursday June 28 2018, @04:45AM (4 children)
But, heck, I'm posting this from a machine with 256MB RAM and only 40GB storage, what would I know.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 4, Interesting) by coolgopher on Thursday June 28 2018, @07:33AM (3 children)
You jest, but have you tried deleting stuff from the "NoSQL" databases? At best it's done at a crawl, and in some cases it's not even possible.
Back in myyyy day... you could delete files by dialing your hard disk [liw.fi]
(Score: 2) by isostatic on Thursday June 28 2018, @10:28AM (2 children)
1998. "Linux the operating system kernel seems to me to be relatively finished"
heh.
(Score: 2) by Arik on Saturday June 30 2018, @01:23AM (1 child)
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by isostatic on Saturday June 30 2018, @11:18AM
Containers springs to mind as one major feature, and virtualisation in general.
The trouble is how do you define "new hardware", new hardware comes with lots of changes. Would IPv6 count? New file systems? Changes from ipchains to iptables to netfilter?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 28 2018, @06:06AM (9 children)
Backwards progress? That's called "Congress".
(Score: 2) by isostatic on Thursday June 28 2018, @10:16AM (8 children)
I'm never quite sure where this idea that "con" is the opposite of "pro" came from.
The antonym of progress would be regress. The antonym of profressional would be amateur. There isn't really an antonym of convict or con artist.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 28 2018, @10:49AM (2 children)
so you like to contradict people?
"white shirts go with black ties. conversely, white ties go with black shirts".
PS: you got me so confused, right now I don't even know if "contravention" is a word in english or not. (I'm being serious, nonnative english speaker here, in my native latin-based language it's quite clear that "contra" is a prefix that does mostly the same thing that "anti" does).
(Score: 3, Informative) by Arik on Thursday June 28 2018, @02:46PM (1 child)
"Contra" appears often in that sense in English words of similar lineage. But "con" is not always short for "contra.""Congress" is also derived from Latin, but not from "contra" rather from congredi or *congradi meaning to walk together (or "together to walk" if you want to preserve the Latin order.) Two other common associations for "con" in English are confidence game or confidence man, i.e. swindle, swindler; and convicted criminal.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by isostatic on Thursday June 28 2018, @08:03PM
Two other common associations for "con"
Yes, when I see con, I think "con man", or "contrail", or maybe "conversation". "Congress" fits the first one I guess.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 28 2018, @02:24PM
That's what the words, by themselves, mean.
Obviously the conclusion that "progress" is the opposite of "congress" is a non-sequitur. But that's ok, because it is a joke.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 28 2018, @02:34PM
Antonym of Progress? Don't know where "con" came from that is the opposite of "pro". It's simple.
Progress is the opposite of Congress (i.e. the US government's Senate and House of Representatives)
See, it's fairly straight forward!! :)
(Score: 3, Informative) by Arik on Thursday June 28 2018, @02:49PM (2 children)
It is, if you select the right senses for each word at least, and it's commonly used that way in the form of "pro and con lists" for instance. In this usage it derives from latin "pro et contra" meaning "for and against."
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by isostatic on Thursday June 28 2018, @06:13PM (1 child)
Oddly enough, I've just written a list of pros and cons without even thinking about it!
(Score: 3, Funny) by takyon on Thursday June 28 2018, @09:35PM
Con: I check this story when the comment count updates, and see more of this stupid grammar discussion continuing instead of memory card discussion.
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(Score: 4, Interesting) by MrNemesis on Thursday June 28 2018, @09:11AM
In this day and age, you should be thankful the new standard doesn't include a mandatorily inbuilt wifi transmitter to automatically upload the contents of your SD card to the secret police of the nearest nation-state (as well as google and facebook of course), as well as overlaying your pictures with Some Important Messages From Our Sponsors.
"To paraphrase Nietzsche, I have looked into the abyss and been sick in it."