Memory Wars May Herald Mobile Devices With Terabytes of Capacity 147
Lucas123 writes "With 3D NAND flash going into high production and one startup demonstrating a resistive NAND (RRAM) flash array, it may not be long before mobile devices have hundreds of gigabytes of capacity, even a terabyte, with performance only limited by the bus. Samsung announced it is now mass producing three-dimensional (3D) Vertical NAND (V-NAND) chips, and start-up Crossbar said it has created a prototype of its RRAM chip. Both technologies offer many times what current NAND flash chips offer today in capacity and performance. Which technology will prevail is still up in the air, and experts believe it will be years before RRAM can challenge NAND, but it's almost inevitable that RRAM will overtake NAND as even 3D NAND heads for an inevitable dead end. Others believe 3D NAND, currently at 24 layers, could reach more than 100, giving it a lifespan of five or more years."
Re:What would they store? (Score:4, Informative)
LULZ, I've got a 32GB with 4GB free, my music collection alone almost fills it, not to mention photos, video, and podcasts. At the rate I've been buying music my collection will fill the 32GB card by the end of the year (gotta love $5 albums from Amazon).
Re:Give me 1TB on my phone and tablet (Score:4, Informative)
I still want an SD card so I can get data on and off my phone when it won't fully boot.
Well, Android phones run Linux, so unless they've intentionally crappidied it (which they do a lot) it should be able to use any FS which Linux supports.
To share a piece of wisdom that I got from slashdot, try formatting it in UDF. Every major OS can read and write it and even old ones like XP can read it without extra drivers.
Dunno if the Android devs decided to delete it for no good reason like so many other things.