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from the My-first-hard-disk-(HH-5ΒΌ")-stored-just-40MB dept.
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: 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?