I anticipated that SSD prices will go down sooner or later. Until they do, BiTMICRO just announced the largest flash drive we’ve seen so far. It’s a 1.6TB Ultra320 SCSI SSD that can do 230 MBps transfer rates.

Though no price have been disclosed yet, I’m pretty confident I should work a few years to pay for it. Ubergizmo thinks you could buy a car with the money, what about you? Would it be THAT expensive?

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SanDisk announced Thursday at the PMA 2008 trade show a new 32GB Ultra II SDHC card. The card comes as a savior for high quality digital cameras and camcorders which consume a lot of memory. The 32GB Ultra II SDHC card will go on sale in April for $350.

A 16GB version will be available in March for $180. Both products will come with the MicroMate USB card reader. The high speed cards offer 15MB/sec read/write speeds.

Besides those products, SanDisk has released a Video HD SDHC memory card. It comes with capacities of 4GB($80) or 8GB($140) and it is perfect for recording high-definition video. The card can capture all type qualities of video, including full High-Definition 1080 format so you can be sure it will suit your needs.

SanDisk rivals have announced 32GB SDHC cards too in January.

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Parks Associates, an internationally recognized market research and consulting company has made a research about Storage Opportunities for Handheld Devices. The study reveals that 99% of mobile phones have a flash memory solution. Nevertheless there will be a notable market opportunity for HDD solutions used for this type of devices. In addition, 96% of cellphones will use flash memory by the end of 2012.

We all know that flash memory provides non-volatility, fast read times, and shock resistance. It is ideal for mobile phones, portable media players or digital cameras. However the increased requirements for storage will boost the technical research for the HDD solutions. More and more consumers demand improved storage devices that can meet their needs.

“These consumers will require greater storage, and the low cost per gigabyte will carve out a market opportunity in handheld devices for HDD memory,” said Parks Associates Analyst Chris Roden.

However, Samsung demonstrated it has the know-how to built an amazing 128GB flash memory card. Consequently the requirements for high capacity multimedia devices and mobile phones will be covered. On the other hand, a little shortcoming about the flash memory cards will encourage the development of new HDD memory solutions. And that is their lifetime.

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I know that uploading the photos to your favorite website or into the computer can be a boring operation. It happened many times for me to forget the photos in my camera just because I didn’t feel like doing it. Not it appears a solution called Eye-Fi wireless SD card.

The Eye-Fi card is a regular 2GB storage card with built-in Wi-Fi. It features a software that automatically upload photos when it reach a wireless hot-spot. If you get this gadget, you will surely forgot about cables and card readers. The cool thing about this card is you can upload the photos to your favorite social websites using the Eye-Fi Service. It works in a 90+ feet outdoors range and 45+ feet indoors range. To easily transfer the photos you need to have a free access Wi-Fi network or to have the passwords. The Eye-Fi card doesn’t work in commercial hot-spot like Starbucks for example.

You can buy the 2GB Eye-Fi Wireless SD Card for $100. It could be on your Christmas list, because the price is fair and it delivers a lot of functionality for your camera.

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This news thrilled me, because even my laptop’s hard drive has only 80GB. But technology never stops. Samsung announced an advanced process to pack the maximum of 16 of the multi level cells just 30 nanometers. That means they are able to deliver 64 gigabits of flash memory onto one chip. The process was called self-aligned double patterning technology (SaDPT).

By using the process described above, Samsung can produce 128 GB NAND memory card. Consequently, the price for memory cards will drop, which is a good thing for the consumers. Also, the high storage cards could replace the traditional hard disks being more efficient. But we have to wait till the technology will be released, perhaps in 2009.

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