Wouldn’t it be nice…a 2 Terabyte Sony Memory Stick? It just might replace my trusted 8GB flash drive I use obsessively. Bummer it’s not a real product [yet].
Sony put out a specification for this new Memory Stick Format Series for Extended High Capacity on the oss-formats.org website earlier today. The new series uses the exFAT format to reach these higher capacities, but still offers up poor transfer speeds of 480Mbps [60MBs per second]. That translates into a data load of about 555,555 hours – WOW – is my math wrong?
The Memory Stick XC format series should deliver a maximum capacity of 2TB, 60 times larger than the company’s Memory Stick Pro, currently at 32GB. What’s even more interesting is that, at least on paper, the XC series will have the same form factors as Sony’s current PRO series.
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