CompactFlash version 5 hits crazy limits

The new CompactFlash spec was published today. Future cards will have a theoretical ceiling of a completely bonkers 144 petabytes, up from the current 137 GB.

http://www.compactflash.org/pr/100222cf5prs.pdf

And it was only a few years ago that you’d see CompactFlash cards with 256 MB of capacity and stuff.