That’s pretty staggering, especially considering that SanDisk’s first
SD card came out in 2003 with just 512MB of memory. That’s a
thousand-fold increase in capacity in a little over a decade.
The
un-exotically named SanDisk Extreme Pro SDXC UHS-I may have more memory
than your laptop, but it’s certainly not for average users. SandDisk
built it for cameras recording video in 4K resolution – aka ultra HD.
In
addition to the phenomenal storage, the new card also comes with a
lifetime warranty is temperature proof, water proof, shock proof and
X-Ray proof. It goes on sale for $800 (£490).
And to get some
historical perspective, the first ever hard drive to have a storage
capacity greater than 1GB was the IBM 3380 released in 1980 (that's a
single 1GB module below left), while experts believe that SD cards could
one day hold 2TB of data (or roughly 2,000GB)
