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Old 10-01-2008, 12:34 AM
onlydarksets
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Originally Posted by Pony99CA View Post
Why is it an "artificial" cap? If the architecture doesn't allow for addressing more than 32 GB, I don't consider that "artificial". The original Sony Memory Stick was capped at 128 MB (I believe), SD was capped at 1 GB (although you could get 2 or 4 GB with various tricks, I think), various iterations of the FAT file system had different caps, etc.

And what would a "real" cap be? Certainly not size (at least not until you get to the subatomic level), because memory keeps getting smaller every year, it seems.

Just curious....

Steve
The technical cap for SDHC is 2048GB (yes, 2TB!). The SD group however, placed an artificial limit of 32GB on it. I have no idea why they did that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_...32_GB_capacity
 
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