Samsung has unveiled the first microSD cards with support for sequential read speeds as high as 800 MB/s later. That’s two to three times as fast as the speediest UHS-II SD cards available today, and even faster than a SATA SSD. So why are Samsung’s new microSD cards so fast? Because they’re the first to […]
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Daily Deals (5-23-2019)
About twenty years ago I paid something like $20 or $30 for my first SD card. It was a 16MB card that could hold roughly four MP3 files. Today you can pick up a 200GB microSD card for $27, a 256GB card for $33 (with coupon: EMCTAVW47) or a 400GB card for $57. How things […]
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MicroSD cards get bigger, faster (1TB and 985 MB/s cards on the way)
A little over a year after the first 512GB microSDXC card was unveiled, SanDisk has introduced the first 1TB card. Micron has one too. The SanDisk Extreme microSDXC UHS-I card should be available in April for $450 and it supports read speeds up to 160MB/s and write speeds up to 90MB/s. The 1TB Micron c200 […]
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SanDisk’s first A2 microSD cards are coming soon (4K/2K IOPS)
SD Cards with the A2 logo on them should support random read speeds that are twice as fast as cards with the A1 logo. There’s just one catch: while the A2 specification was introduced more than a year and a half ago, there weren’t actually any A2 cards available for purchase… until now. Western Digital […]
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Say hello to the first 512GB microSDXC card
My smartphone has 64GB of storage space. My laptop has 256GB, or four times as much. But soon you’ll be able to buy a microSD card with twice as much storage as that. Integral Memory has unveiled the first microSDXC card with 512GB of storage capacity, which ain’t half bad for a device about the […]
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Give a Nexus 5 a microSD card slot (at your own risk) with this dirty hack
The last Google Nexus smartphone to feature a microSD card slot was the first Nexus phone. After launching the Google Nexus One in 2010, Google never again included support for a removable storage card in a Nexus phone. But that doesn’t mean you can’t add one yourself… if you’re willing to take apart and risk damaging it or removing […]
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ExoDrive smartphone case promises to add external microSD card support (crowdfunding)
One major complaint that mobile device users often have is lack of storage. Many of the most affordable phones or tablets don’t have enough enough storage to support the huge files that games and apps now have. The ExoDrive is designed to alleviate some of the problems with lack of smartphone storage. The case includes a microSD […]