Hasta La Gadget!

It may not hold 200 years’ worth of silicon-stuffed porn, but SanDisk’s new SDXC card has one big advantage over Dylan Tweney’s desert-island-fantasy 188 petabyte CF card: you can buy it. If you have $350 to spare.

The SDXC spec was announced a year ago, and has a theoretical 2 terabyte maximum capacity. But we wonder if anyone anyone will need them. The high-end cameras which need this kind of storage for their huge files all use Compact Flash cards, and anyone else runs into the eggs-in-basket problems of having all their images in one easy-to-lose place. Another problem: Where do you put these pictures? Filling up a 64GB card means that you’ll need to find somewhere to put all those pics, and your laptop’s hard drive will fill up pretty fast.

One more tip to all SD card manufacturers: Make these tiny slivers of plastic in brighter colors. Black may be more stylish, but it sure means I lose a lot of cards. I can’t find them in dark corners, and have to buy new ones. Or maybe that’s the point?

SanDisk Ultra SDXC Cards [SanDisk]

See Also:

• Toshiba Claims New 64 GB SDXC Card is Largest and Fastest
• Two Terabyte SD Cards Coming Soon
• Panasonic SD Card Worth 8-Times Its Weight in Gold