Western Digital to Showcase 4TB microSD and 8TB SD cards at Future Memory and Storage Conference

TapTechNews August 9th news, Western Digital will attend the Future Memory and Storage Conference held in Santa Clara, California, USA this week, and will showcase the world's first 4TB microSD and 8TB SD memory cards.

Sandisk says these two memory cards are designed for use in smartphones, gaming devices, drones, cameras and laptops, and both only have UHS-I, which means Sandisk continues the trend of sacrificing speed for capacity.

The Sandisk official has not announced the speed details and V-level of these memory cards. The source petapixel indicates that the lowest transfer speed of Sandisk's current 1TB memory card using UHS-I technology is 30 MB/s, and the peak transfer speed is 200 MB/s, but it cannot maintain this speed.

The situation of Sandisk's 1.5TB microSD card is even worse, only able to maintain a transfer speed of 10 MB/s, and its V10 level is even more disastrous.

But anyway, the fact that Sandisk can achieve the capacities of 4TB and 8TB for microSD and SD memory cards is itself a breakthrough. As a proof of concept, Sandisk will also showcase the first 16TB portable solid-state drive, officially called SanDisk DeskDrive, claiming: With unprecedented space and performance, it can keep up with the growing need for the creation and consumption of content.

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