Toshiba Announces 128 MB SD Card

Toshiba America Electronic Components has announced a 128 megabyte Secure Digital (SD) memory card. It is capable of storing up to four hours of music or forty minutes of video. It is not yet available and a price wasn't revealed.

This brings the size of the largest SD card up to parity with the largest Memory Stick. The 128 MB MemStick sells for $150.

"With the introduction of the 128MB SD Memory Card, we are continuing to push the envelope in developing higher density solutions to meet the needs of a broader range of applications requiring greater amounts of secure file storage," said Jackie Traeumer, senior business development manager, Flash Products, at TAEC.

The company plans to introduce a 256MB SD Memory Card in the fourth quarter of 2001.

Toshiba and Sony are currently engaged in a price war in SD cards and MemSticks. Just last week, Sony dropped its prices to below the costs of equivalent SD cards, after Toshiba/Panasonic dropped SD prices in July.

The non-secure version of the SD card, the MMC, is cheaper than SD cards and has many of the same functions but no 128 MB MMC card has yet been announced.

SD card slots can be found on the Palm m500 series, the HandEra 330, and digital cameras, MP3 players, and more.

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115.00 for 128 mb memory stick

I.M. Anonymous @ 8/6/2001 1:28:17 PM #
Sony MSA-128A 128MB Memory Stick
$114.88
In stock. Usually
ships in 1-2 Days
www.etronics.com

PC Nation: 118.44


RE: 115.00 for 128 mb memory stick
Ed @ 8/6/2001 1:51:52 PM #
Just to be clear, I always quote the official company price for stuff in the articles. I leave it up to you guys to post where the cheapest prices can be found on the Web.

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RE: 115.00 for 128 mb memory stick
RoofusPennymore @ 8/6/2001 3:50:25 PM #
I just paid $58 for a 128 MB CF card. And just saw a 256 for $170. Long live CF!

RE: 115.00 for 128 mb memory stick
I.M. Anonymous @ 8/6/2001 3:56:20 PM #
if i had only waited one week, i would have saved $35 on the MS. if i had only known it was coming... oh well. cant always be waiting for prices on electronics to come down. youll never buy.

RE: 115.00 for 128 mb memory stick
I.M. Anonymous @ 8/6/2001 6:46:13 PM #
>> I just paid $58 for a 128 MB CF card. And just saw a 256 for $170. Long live CF!

Just curious, how big is the CF card?

RE: 115.00 for 128 mb memory stick
I.M. Anonymous @ 8/6/2001 7:08:49 PM #
CF are big fat slugs in comparison to SD! Heaps slower transfer speed as well!

RIP CF

Hey Roofus!
I.M. Anonymous @ 8/6/2001 10:39:29 PM #
Where'd ya get a 128 MB CF card for $58? Man, I'd luv to buy one fot that price!

128 mb no good until...

I.M. Anonymous @ 8/6/2001 3:03:10 PM #
I have a 64 mb card in my m505. Its usefullness is greatly hampered by the lack of apps that will adress things from the card directly.

It has been described here before a way to make a combination of 'ms-mount', 'mc-file', and 'power-run' to make the all the apps work well with the card including the horribly slow 'photo-suite' but I tried it out and got mixed results and a lot of mess in the way of errors and orphaned files...

Untill the OS has the features of the above described programs I don't think anyone should waste thier money on a 128 meg card. It takes too much time to use effectively, just get a couple of smaller cards, I think you might be happier.

RE: 128 mb no good until...
I.M. Anonymous @ 8/6/2001 3:22:33 PM #
That's where a device like the Clie 710c utilizes the 128 MB so well with its built in audio player.

RE: 128 mb no good until...
I.M. Anonymous @ 8/6/2001 3:38:35 PM #
Get yourself a copy of Launcher III 2.3. Its in beta. Applications on the SD card show up just like the ones in memory do. Its free too.

RE: 128 mb no good until...
I.M. Anonymous @ 8/6/2001 5:11:47 PM #
how fast is launcher III?

RE: 128 mb no good until...
I.M. Anonymous @ 8/6/2001 6:49:38 PM #
So where do you find launcher III 2.3 beta?

RE: 128 mb no good until...
I.M. Anonymous @ 8/6/2001 8:03:09 PM #
I'd like to know where to get the beta version of Launcher III also.. please post a link

RE: 128 mb no good until...
I.M. Anonymous @ 8/6/2001 9:02:58 PM #
Launcher III v. 2.3b3 is the latest beta version. It uses /Palm/Laucher and I have replaced Powerrun with it. It does not replace McFile or MsMount but they said the next beta version will have a gadget to move your files. You can download it here.
http://www.benc.hr/beta/

TC

Old news...

I.M. Anonymous @ 8/6/2001 4:29:59 PM #
Scandisk has already had a 128mb SD card for about 2 months now.

RE: Not Old news...
I.M. Anonymous @ 8/6/2001 5:40:14 PM #
If your talking about SanDisk, their 128 MB SD card is expected at the end of this month for $210.

https://www.order123.com/products/sandisk.html

If your talking about something else, post a link.

RE: Old news...
I.M. Anonymous @ 8/7/2001 10:59:01 AM #
Toshiba SD 128MB has been available in Japan since June, and probably even before that, cause I was only looking for SD card when I got my 505 on June.


Hey!

I.M. Anonymous @ 8/7/2001 12:58:29 AM #
"64 megs ought to be enough for anybody" - Qube

RE: Hey!
mikecane @ 8/7/2001 8:42:03 AM #
Only for those anybodies w/o a CLIE N710C. MP3s eat filespace!

RE: Hey!
I.M. Anonymous @ 8/8/2001 8:52:45 AM #
Apparently you do not follow the cliche here...

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henr˙ @ 8/10/2001 7:18:22 AM #
I have the m505, what's the point of having so much memory when the sound from a Palm is so bad. That means no movies and MP3s.
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