SD Cards Add PCIe and NVMe, Hit 985 MB/Sec and 128TB

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The SD Association has announced new specifications for SD cards that supposedly put them in line with SSDs. “SD Ultra Capacity” has upped the maximum capacity of cards from 2TB to 128TB, while “SD Express” adds PCIe and NVMe interfaces for 985 MB/sec data transfer speeds.

The new standards both retain the existing SD Card form factor, so will work in anything that can already read one of the cards. Not all devices will get the new speed, because adding NVMe and PCIe (versions 1.3 and 3.0 respectively) uses the second set of pins already present on ultra-high speed SD cards and not everything is built to hit those pins.
 
Is this good? Not sure. Faster, yes.. but good? I wasn't aware I needed a 2TB MicroSD card, LOL
 
Isn't Samsung trying to get a new type of card out and the slot is backward compatible with microSD, can't think of it's name ATM?
 
Isn't Samsung trying to get a new type of card out and the slot is backward compatible with microSD, can't think of it's name ATM?

like panasonics 'micro p2" cards being SD cards?

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Is this good? Not sure. Faster, yes.. but good? I wasn't aware I needed a 2TB MicroSD card, LOL

You might not, but lots of people do. Along with the trend to pro video etc where cameras use actual SSDs for storage because of speed needed and massive size of raw 8k video at bitrates of hundreds of MB/s, hell, even consumer level stuff is getting close to a GB a minute.
 
985MB/s? The photo crowd's gonna love these. Heck, at that speed and capacity, I could see next-gen video utilizing it, too!
 
Why does she remind me of this?

Someone reading tech marketing from a script is difficult to listen to. Her script was particularly bad.

"... along with NVME upper layer protocol, enabling advanced memory access mechanism."

Uh... cut?
 
Interface speed is one thing, but do we actually have single flash chips that can read/write that fast yet?

I love the idea of having a TB on a micro sd, but if you're stuck working on it at like 50MB/s its not going to be fun to use.
 
Interface speed is one thing, but do we actually have single flash chips that can read/write that fast yet?

I love the idea of having a TB on a micro sd, but if you're stuck working on it at like 50MB/s its not going to be fun to use.

I have a couple of Samsung 128 GB micro SD cards. Their max speed is about 100MB/s. It's laughable :/
 
How much do you want to bet that the chick in the video doesn't understand anything she was saying!
 
How much do you want to bet that the chick in the video doesn't understand anything she was saying!
Nice sexist comment.

I echo what others are saying, this is like everything else where we have a new hypothetical speed, once mfrs are able to actually produce something that can utilize it... in about five years.
 
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