SanDisk Announces World's Largest SD Card At 512GB
"As an industry leader, SanDisk continues to push the boundaries of technology to provide customers with the innovative, reliable, high-performance solutions they have come to expect from us," said Dinesh Bahal, vice president, product marketing, SanDisk. "4K Ultra HD is an example of a technology that is pushing us to develop new storage solutions capable of handling massive file sizes. The 512GB SanDisk Extreme PRO SDXC UHS-I card is a tremendous advancement that enables professionals to reliably store more content on a single card than ever before."
Compare that to SanDisk's first SD card unveiled back in 2003 -- it was a paltry (by today's standards) 512MB! The new 512GB card represents a 1,000-fold capacity increase in just over a decade, and remarkably, it's not any bigger in physical size than the original.
The 512GB SanDisk Extreme Pro SDXC UHS-I delivers up to 90MB/s of write performance and UHS Speed Class 3 (U3) recording speed to handle high resolution, real-world color and stutter-free 4K Ultra HD video transfer speeds of up to 95MB/s (read). It's also temperature proof, water proof, shock proof, and x-ray proof, backed by a limited lifetime warranty.
Of course, this kind of high-capacity, high-speed storage doesn't come cheap -- SanDisk says it will be available soon for $800 MSRP.