In April 2008 you will be able to buy a brand new Sandisk 32GB SDHC card. This is really good news, although the price for this card will be quite expensive. So why is it good news?
1. A new 32GB SDHC in the market means that 16GB, 8GB and 4GB SDHC cards will drop prices to make room for their new friend.
2. This means 64GB SDHC is the next step. We might already see them in the market by the end of 2008 or the first quarter of 2009. Who knows.
The interesting part is that although those tiny micro SDHC cards are one quarter of a full-size SDHC card, they are already available for sale in the form of 8GB micro SDHC, by Sandisk as well. It is probable that we are going to see by the end of 2008 16GB micro SDHC.
Since the new SDHC cards are evolving so fast, pretty soon someone will have to answer the question regarding the limitation of FAT32. I’m not sure if it really is a problem, but the maximum limitation of FAT32 when formatting a partition with Microsoft Windows is 32GB. You actually can format a FAT32 to a size bigger than 32GB using an external application, such as Partition Magic, but the big question is - will those SDHC compatible devices have problems reading those partitions? Will manufacturers force us yet again to dump our old devices from last year and buy new ones, only to use those 64GB or 128GB SDHC cards? I really hope not, but only time will tell.