Western Digital is showing off an SD card at Mobile World Congress that’s faster than many SSDs. It can handle sequential read speeds up to 880 MB/s and sequential write speeds up to 430 MB/s. The only catch is that your PC, phone, or tablet probably can’t use it… and that’s unlikely to change anytime […]
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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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SanDisk launches a 400GB microSDXC card
SD cards with storage capacities up to 1TB are already a thing. But microSD cards? They’ve topped out at around 256GB for a while. Now Western Digital-owned SanDisk is breaking through the barrier with the launch of the first 400GB microSDXC UHS-I card. It should be available soon for $250. The company says the new 400GB […]
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How to use an SD card with Amazon’s Fire tablets
Every tablet Amazon Fire tablet released in the past few years has featured a microSD card slot, which is a nice thing to have if you’re using a tablet that may have as little as 8GB of built-in storage. You can pick up just about any Class 10 or UHS microSD card to add up […]
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Micron kills off Lexar flash drives, storage cards, and other products
Say goodbye to the Lexar brand of removable storage products. Parent company Micron Technology is “discontinuing its Lexar retail removable storage business.” That means you won’t see new Lexar-branded USB flash drives, SD cards, card readers, or other memory products. I suspect it’ll take a while before stores sell out of any remaining inventory though, […]
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Soon it could be easier to know if an SD card is fast enough for your mobile apps
Since the launch of Android 6.0 Marshmallow, Google’s mobile operating system has supported “adoptable storage,” allowing users of some phones to use a removable microSD card as if it were internal storage. But not all microSD cards are equal… and some are so much slower than the built-in storage in a phone that using the […]
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1TB SD cards are coming
Need more storage for your camera or laptop? Soon you may be able to get a lot more. SanDisk has unveiled new SDXC cards with 1 terabyte of storage. At this point, the new SD card is just a prototype, so it’s not clear how much it will cost or when it will be available for purchase. […]
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Now you can boot an 8GB NOOK Tablet from an SD card
A week after Barnes & Noble released a new version of the NOOK Tablet, hackers have figured out how to get it to boot from a microSD card. This allows you to circumvent the locked bootloader and load custom firmware on the tablet including ClockworkMod Recovery or custom ROMs such as CyanogenMod 7. The new […]
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Motorola XOOM 4G upgrade also improves SD card support
When the Motorola XOOM hit the streets in February it was missing two key features: a 4G LTE modem and a working SD card slot. It took a while, but in July Motorola finally rolled out an update that allowed users to insert an SD card and read data from it. And last month Motorola […]
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Motorola XOOM finally gets an SD card fix… outside the US
Good news everyone… outside of the US! Motorola is finally going to make that useless microSD card slot on your XOOM tablet start working. Motorala Europe has announced that it has already started rolling out a software update bringing Google Android 3.1 to XOOM users residing in countries that don’t happen to be the United […]