SanDisk ships world’s first memory cards with 64 gigabit X4 NAND flash

By Mey Lia

As we mostly knew that SanDisk is one of the most well known names in the memory card industry or manufacturing. A lot and variety of memory cards are made by SanDisk just to fit every device from mobile phones to portable game consoles markets. And today SanDisk has announced that they have shipped their world’s first 64GB Flash Memory card that using X4 NAND flash technology.

The new technology of the card will enable to store 4 bits data per cell and it’s double data per cell compare to the traditional MLC NAND that has been previously and commonly used in memory cards. The new technology that is used is a high density single-die device as it’s built on the 64GB chips and as well on the 43nm process and it will be used as well in SDHC cards and Memory Stick Pro Duo cards for Sony devices with two options of memory capacity of 8GB and 16GB. Unfortunately, the availability and the price is not yet available at this time.

As what Sanjay Mehrotra, the SanDisk President and Chief Operating Officer mentioned that the commercialization and the development of the X4 technology will represent an important milestone for the flash storage industry, so the challenge with the X4 technology was not only to give the lower costs inherent to 4-bits per cell but it is as well to meet the reliability and performance requirements of MLC NAND industry standard cards. So the deep experience of the high speed 2 and 3-bits –per-cell flash chip designs has been applied by their world-class design and engineering team to collaborate with their leading design partners to develop a powerful error correction algorithms in order to assure the reliable operation.

FreeAgent DockStar – Another New Technology for Network Adapter from Seagate

By Mey Lia

Seagate has unveiled a new network adapter named FreeAgent DockStar. As we know that it’s very important for us to back up our data and media from our computer to an external drive, and I have discussed previously on my blog about Seagate FreeAgent portable hard drive.

FreeAgent DockStar is a new network adapter technology that will enable you to access all your files and data that has been stored in the external storage drive from anywhere inside or outside your house as the FreeAgent DockStar will connect the external storage drive to the internet to make your data on the drive accessible online. In addition, iPhone App is also allowed to access the drive, it’s an additional feature from Seagate.

The technology that is used by the DockStar is an intuitive web-based interface from Cloud Engine’s Pogoplug service, so that you will be able to access the data on the drive through internet or online. Besides, by using the FreeAgent DockStar, user will also be able to place linked pictures and video onto Facebook, Twiter and MySpace as well.

Now the DockStar adapter is available at price $99.99 through Seagate including the Pogoplug service for the first year, then after the first year, it will cost you $29.99 yearly for unlimited access and storage.

The 64GB SDXC – World’s First Memory Card Launched by Toshiba

By Mey Lia

The world’s first Memory Card of 64GB SDXC has been announced and launched by Toshiba with the world’s fastest data transfer rate. The samples will be sent out to manufacturers in around November, but maybe some still have to wait till spring next year.

The SDXC (Secure Digital eXtended Capacity) is the first memory card that are compliant with the SD Memory card standard v.3.00, UHS104 and it brings an ability to read with ultra-fast new level as well as to write to NAND memory cards with flash based.

The memory storage range of the High Capacity SDXC memory cards are starting from 64GB and limited to 2TB at this moment.

Unfortunately the SDXC memory cards are not compatible with existing SD devices as it uses Microsoft’s exFAT file system, so it won’t be recognized when you insert or use the SDXC cards in your current camera or any digital devices.

Till now there are still no news yet regarding the SDXC cards compatible devices, but hopefully by early next year, we will see some of compatible devices will be announced.