It wasn’t that way back once we have been impressed by a 400GB microSD card, however now, Western Digital is exhibiting off a full-size SD card with 10 instances the storage capability. The brand new SanDisk Excessive Professional 4TB SD card is designed for cameras and laptops, and it’s the primary time we’ve seen this storage dimension on an SD card.
Whereas Western Digital is previewing its four-terabyte SD card on the NAB Present this week, it received’t truly be accessible till 2025. AnandTech notes that the cardboard makes use of the Extremely Excessive Pace-I (UHS-I) interface, which helps as much as 104MB/s knowledge transfers within the UHS104 (SDR104) mode. It additionally has minimal sequential write speeds of 30MB/s, sufficient for 8K video recording.
The SD Affiliation first introduced its Safe Digital Extremely Capability (SDUC) card specs in 2018, promising that SD playing cards would quickly maintain as much as 128 terabytes of storage. It’s taken fairly a while to get to the 4TB level, and Western Digital isn’t disclosing what kind of NAND is contained in the upcoming card, so even increased capacities are seemingly a methods off.
Nonetheless, in case you’re wanting to report past 4K decision with 4 terabytes of house, then Western Digital ought to have one thing prepared subsequent yr. The massive query is how a lot a 4TB UHS-1 SD card will value. Given the 1TB variations of the identical card retail for round $140, you’re most likely taking a look at $600 or extra for a 4TB model.
