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News on the recent 2TB Mu-Card (Flash Memory Card)

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Rommie2006

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Folks,

I think back in Jan/Feb 2005 and even earlier back in Q4 2004, there was some articles on the development of the Mu-Card by some Taiwanese company. The articles all reported that the prototypes have been completed, and that the Taiwanese company is currently in negotiation with some Flash Memory association.
The interesting part is that the Mu-Card has a capacity of 2TB, yes 2TB!!! I mean is this a a typo error? Did they mean UP to 2TB or a capacity OF 2TB? Should I hold back on my HDD purchases?
 
It was a typo at best, a scam at worst. There's no way you can fit 2TB of data using current flash technology, you'd need far too many transistors for such a small package.
 
Originally posted by: ViRGE
It was a typo at best, a scam at worst. There's no way you can fit 2TB of data using current flash technology, you'd need far too many transistors for such a small package.
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Hmm... quite the visionary, didn't they used to say "man will never fly"? :roll:

Sure is a lot of info on this card for it to be a "hoax"...Card

 
I remember that, at least the pictures of the "prototypes" were a complete scam. Looked like some crackpot inventor looking to get rich off of naive investor's cash.
Edit: Interesting, trying to go to that page, goes to microsoft.com first (bad link), and then manually correcting the link, I get the VR-Zone banner and then Firefox crashes.
 
Originally posted by: boshuter
Originally posted by: ViRGE
It was a typo at best, a scam at worst. There's no way you can fit 2TB of data using current flash technology, you'd need far too many transistors for such a small package.
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Hmm... quite the visionary, didn't they used to say "man will never fly"? :roll:

Sure is a lot of info on this card for it to be a "hoax"...Card
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I didn't say it wasn't ever going to happen, I said that it isn't possible with today's technology.
 
Hoax? It's reported by Digitimes and Inquirer, 2 highly respected sources.
Plus they're opening trade neg with MMC alliance and several major IT companies have expressed their interest. Hoax you say?
 
The article I read prev said that it had speed transfer of up to 120MB/sec, but is also backwards compatible with the slower SD/MMC interface. I'm still pretty skeptical over this, so I'm just waiting for new news, but in the meantime was wondering what the other who have read it think about this new tech.
 
120MB/s?

hahahaha. I would love to see that get mass produced. I'm sure that would replace M-Sys FFDs very quickly. that in 2.5" form factor in SAS/SATA form in RAID0 would take the server world by storm.
 
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