So where is my 60GB CF Card?

[FlyingPete]

I was having a thought this morning in the traffic on the way in to work (uh oh).

My wife has a 2GB MicroSD card in her phone, an insane amount of storage in a small space. This got me thinking, how many of these could I squeeze into the same space as a CF card?

Here is the maths:
A MicroSD card is 11x15x1mm, so that is 165 cubic mm's. The current maximum capacity is 2GG, so that is 82.5 cubic mm per GB (CMMGB - my new storage density measurement )

A Type 1 CF card is 36.4x42.8x3.3mm which is 5141.136 cubic mm's. So based on a storage density of 82.5 CMMGB a CF1 card should be able to store 62.3GB! Do the same calc on CF2 and you get a massive 94.4GB

OK I know I haven't taken into account area loss in connectors and controllers, or the fact CF and SD have different memory technologies but surely even if we half the CMMGB we still end up with 30GB CFs.

Enough early morning rambling...

[Anke]

I think you should hence forth be known as Mr Thinkstoomuch

[Big Mike]

Samsung

[Costa Del Canon]

oh! my head hurts now!

[felix21685]

now the question is what is the maximum supported size by the cameras

[FlyingPete]

Originally Posted by Anke

I think you should hence forth be known as Mr Thinkstoomuch

Hmmm probably better than 'I'm Imune'

Originally Posted by Big Mike

Samsung

Cool, they do exist

[brunester]

lol thats crazy Mr Thinkstoomuch
i would be scared of using one of those though......
60gb of images lost when i do something stupid lol

[MDJAK]

Holy Crap, I think that's more memory in one card than all of NASA's computers had on the Moon Launching, and those filled a warehouse or two.

I've gone as far as 8gb. On my 1DsMKII, shooting RAW, that's a minimum of 400 and a max of 430 shots depending on ISO setting. Even that is an awful lot of eggs to place in one basket.

me

[John Sims]

I'm currently using multiple 2G cards (200 shots per card RAW and small jpg on a 30D). This is enough for me. As said previously, "Eggs in baskets". Cards fail and when they do it is without warning.

Download speeds will suffer with large amounts of data stored and why would you want any more than a couple of hundred shots on the camera at one time? - in the old days we had to change film every 36 shots.

Phone memory is different as phones have a multitude of functions (phone, camera, MP3 player, video camera, sat nav, games console etc. etc. so they need lots of memory. A camera only has one function - to take pictures and eat disposable income. Sorry, two functions - to take pictures, eat disposable income and weigh you down when your are out. Sorry three functions...............nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.

[CoolToolGuy]

Originally Posted by MDJAK

Holy Crap, I think that's more memory in one card than all of NASA's computers had on the Moon Launching, and those filled a warehouse or two.

I've gone as far as 8gb. On my 1DsMKII, shooting RAW, that's a minimum of 400 and a max of 430 shots depending on ISO setting. Even that is an awful lot of eggs to place in one basket.

me

BITD I was a disk storage manager, and the rule of thumb was that you needed one 'disk guy' for each 10GB of storage. Using that criteria, there would be six of us, all taking turns holding & managing one CF card - sheesh!

Personally, I don't want a card that big for current-day DSLR photography. For one thing, I would wig out if my 'estimated shots left' never got below '999.' Maybe in a few years the MPs will go up, or the shot counters will go to 4 digits and I'll be tempted.

Have Fun,

[In2Photos]

Originally Posted by Big Mike

Samsung

Now if they could only be as cheap as DVDs we could use these for storage medium.