2 TB Memory Stick: From Sony & Sandisk
Looks like Sony is doing ok during the crisis even if their Swedish partner Ericsson will not likely say the same thing (Ericsson just cut off the costs with 5000 new employees and put the blame on Sony) because at least in the technological field, Sony and the other partner Sandisk developed a technology that will bring on the market a memory card of 2 TB. All this is happening while Western digital are announcing their 2 TB HDD- Caviar Green WD 20EADS.
The new cards named Memory Stick format for Extended High Capacity don’t seem to have a very different format in comparison to what we have now. The new Memory Stick format for Extended High Capacity is actually the extension of Memory Stick Pro and can store 60 times more data than the old Memory Stick Pro which has only 32 GB.
Besides the old fashion memory sticks that have a 4 bits, 20 MB second data transfer, Sony is also developing a new memory stick after the old format of Micro HG, the new Memory Stick Micro ( M2) promising to have an interface with a frequency of 60 Mhz and a data transfer performance of 8 bits, up to 60 MB/ seconds. The memory sticks will be available starting with this year, but we won’t have the 2 TB memory sticks directly. For this we will have to wait a while, maybe a whole year, the memory will rise gradually. Anyway it seems like the memory sticks are catching up hard drives at least in quantity (memory size), if not in quality (speed in data transfer).
Via: Estato.com
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