Earlier this year, Western Digital announced plans to launch 4TB SD cards in 2025. Now the company is presenting its first 4TB microSD cards and promises that full-size SD cards with up to 8 TB storage capacity are on the way.
WD announced both upcoming products last week at the Future Memory Storage 2024 conference.
Both memory cards are sold under WD’s SanDisk brand and both are described as SDUC UHS-I cards that are “built for the smartphones, gaming devices, drones, cameras and laptops of tomorrow.”
With theoretical transfer speeds of up to 104MB/s, UHS-I cards aren’t the fastest SD cards available, but they should be fast enough for most photo or video applications.
What really makes these cards special, however, is their ability to much of data. Currently, the largest SD and microSD cards available on the market have a maximum storage capacity of around 1.5 TB.
But the upcoming 4TB and 8TB SanDisk cards are just the next step on the way up: The SD Ultra Capacity (SDUC) standard has been around since 2018 and theoretically allows cards with up to 128TB storage capacity. But it will probably be a while before we see cards that come close to this maximum.
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