Will our smartphones soon be storing TBs of data?
No one can deny that smartphones have had a significant
effect on the way we create, consume and store our data and Fields Data Recovery now recover data from hundreds of iPhones etc. every year. Often, though, due to
their relatively low storage capacities, users need to carefully select their
most important files (their favourite music or video files, for example) which
they will then afford a space in their phone’s storage media. Other files can
usually be accessed through the cloud but this, of course, is not possible when
someone finds themselves in an area with poor signal. It’s also worth noting
that streaming data from the cloud can become expensive once a user has exceeded
the monthly data allowance they’re afforded by their service provider.
In short, it would be far more convenient if it were
possible to store all of our data on our smartphones. Sadly, this has been
limited by technology with high-storage capacity media like HDDs simply being
too big for smartphones and flash-based storage capable of storing lots of data
simply not being affordable. A recent announcement by The SD Association,
however, suggests that smartphones capable of storing Terabytes of data may be available
in the not too distant future.
The association have predicted that the new SD Ultra
Capacity (SCUD) specification could one day result in SD cards capable of storing
a truly astonishing 128TBs of data. To put that in context, no smartphone currently
available boasts more than 256GBs of storage space, meaning that a 128TB phone
would offer a 500-fold increase on this figure.
The SD Association’s press release suggests that this new
specification has been created with those working with new video formats such
as 8K and super-slow-motion capture in mind but, with the SD card format being
ideal for slim devices such as smartphones, we think it’d only be a matter of
time before such technology was used to ramp up the storage capacity of mobile
devices. It could even be used, you’d presume, to manufacture SSDs pushing
capacities of one petabyte.
Sadly, we think that it’ll be some time before SD cards are
capable of storing hundreds of Terabytes but with 1TB SD cards already
available for purchase, we’re certain that the technology will be used to
create smartphones that offer comparable storage relatively soon. Following
this, capacities will continue to rise until we do indeed have phones offering
several terabytes of storage. We'd better get ready for more SD data recovery jobs!
If your phone, SD card or any other types of storage media
has failed, contact the data
recovery experts at Fields Data Recovery today.