New SD definitions known

Just to keep everyone up to date there are new official SD definitions.
You can read more about it here http://www.imaging-resource.com/NEWS/1277318399.html

To finish the SD news, Transcend comes with a 64GB Class 10 SDXC Card. link
I wonder how long it will take till there are 128GB cards out there, 6 months at most?

Just been reeding the same thing on Gizmodo, very interesting.

Graham

SDXC - the devils own work. A 'standard' agreed on by committee pushed by Microsoft that is patent encumbered. So unless you pay Microsoft lots of money, you can't create a compliant SDXC card reader driver.

Didn't see that one coming. /s

C

Chris do you've more info on that?

I know they are using exFAT for their new SDXC cards to break the 4GB file limit but exFAT is from windows. Has that something to do with it?

You nailed it in one. There are Linux drivers (of sorts) - one is allegedly a Win driver that has been wrapped with a shim layer and can do reads, but writing has been problematic. The other is by Tuxera - and that arrives as a binary blob which costs an unspecified amount.

C

Mac users probably have the same problem.

Might this be something?
http://code.google.com/p/exfat/

Looks interesting. Also looks to be RO support at the moment. Nice to see if it develops.

C