SanDisk 128 GB MicroSD Card Launched In India for Rs. 9999

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  Satya Swaroop Dash

  The memory card might be pricey but it would solve one's storage problem once in for all. The only problem that you have pointed out in the story is that not most phones support this microSD card, but for smartphones that are capable of recording 4K videos, this card will be a god sent.
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  Kaustubh Katdare

  #-Link-Snipped-# - Storing 4K videos will definitely need the memory storage to be upgraded to TBs. I wonder how long will it take before engineers fix that up.
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  Satya Swaroop Dash

  It took engineers eight years to get from 128 MB to 128GB and getting it up to a TB will surely take at least five more years.
  PS: Are class 10 cards like this fast enough to handle 4K videos ?
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  Abhishek Rawal

  Kaustubh Katdare

  #-Link-Snipped-# - Storing 4K videos will definitely need the memory storage to be upgraded to TBs. I wonder how long will it take before engineers fix that up.

  There is the reason why H.265 & VP9 is being developed.
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  Rajni Jain

  Satya Swaroop Dash

  It took engineers eight years to get from 128 MB to 128GB and getting it up to a TB will surely take at least five more years.
  PS: Are class 10 cards like this fast enough to handle 4K videos ?

  128 MB to 128 GB was 1000 times improvement;1000 times improvement in 8 years,
  
  Going with the same pace (though IT is going exponential), 128 GB to 1 TB is less than 10 times (just 7.8) and should be evolved in well within a year.
  
  The main problem would be how many mobile device would support that?
  Also, with a growing popularity of cloud do we really need to depend on hard storage that can fail at any point of time?
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  Kaustubh Katdare

  I think Solid State Devices aren't the answer to mega storages. People will have to resort to the traditional tape drives. The breakthrough will be when the speeds of SSDs are achieved in mega-storage devices.
  
  #-Link-Snipped-# : Google's done a lot of work in compression algorithms; but nothing really has come closer to meet the demands of 4K and 8K videos.
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  jayaprakash.m

  128GB MicroSD card for Indian market Priced at Rs. 9999, its cost very high.
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  Abhishek Rawal

  Kaustubh Katdare

  #-Link-Snipped-# - Storing 4K videos will definitely need the memory storage to be upgraded to TBs. I wonder how long will it take before engineers fix that up.

  Recently, Netflix introduced 4K Video streaming and it requires 2 MBps bandwidth to stream, which is huge! As per my calculations, around 7 GB (2 x 60 x 60) data is consumed in one hour of video recording constantly at 2 MBps. So, overall a movie of 120 minute will hardly require 14-15 GB of space. I guess, we don't need TBs.
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  Kaustubh Katdare

  #-Link-Snipped-# - check out this utility that lets you calculate how much of storage will be required by 4K stuff: #-Link-Snipped-#
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  Abhishek Rawal

  #-Link-Snipped-# LOL! That's funny stats. You know why ? Because Netflix launched 4K streaming service, and its CEO said that any 4K UHD TV with >=16 Mbps bandwidth can stream it. However the more, the better but 16 Mbps (2 MBps) is minimum required.
  
  Now, as per the funny stats from the link you gave, it consumes ~455 MB data for 1 sec video which is too huge that I don't think any user can stream it. Plus it is uncompressed bitrate, while Netflix uses H.265 for 4K streaming.