The current standard for CompactFlash card (CF card) can be in version 4.1 is “only” support cards with a size of up to 137 GB, a limit producers already are near. This has led to CompactFlash Association (CFA) since November 2008 has been working on a new version of the standard, and it is now clear.
The new standard is called CD5.0 and now has an address space of 48 bits, which corresponds to a CF card in theory can accommodate up to 144 petabyte. Besides a marked increase in the potential capacity of brine is the possible transfer rate also increased by a factor of 256th
As many CF cards now also used to record video in, has added a possibility to guarantee a card can be used for video called “Video Performance Guarantee”.
In addition there has been a series of other measures to help ensure the quality of the standard, including a new test method to see if a card is CF5.0 compliant.
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Nexcopy on February 25, 2010 at 9:36 AM.
144PB of information…WOW…I read in another blog post that all the words information, since the beginning of time, published in every language only takes up 50PBs of data storage. So the question becomes, do we really need 144PB of storage. My answer…yes! You can never have enough space.