We remember the days when all we could get was a maximum of 128MB on a microSD card, and we wonder, where have those days gone? Now SanDisk, makers of these teeny-weeny microSD cards, have just announced at the Mobile World Congress 2015 in Barcelona that they were able to stuff 200GB into a microSD card. What is the world coming to, really?
Alright, we feign incredulity, but really – this thing is incredible and nothing short of amazing. The full name of the product is the “Ultra microSDXC UHS-I card Premium Edition” – which will give you a full 200GB of external storage on whichever device you deign bestow the blessing of such storage quantity.
You might be thinking, well, 200GB is nothing if it copies and transfers files at turtle pace – given the size of the storage capacity. You were correct to worry in the sense that this would have been a problem, had SanDisk not dealt with it. As such, with this new microSD card, you won't have to give up performance. The data transfer rate should still be at a whopping 90MB per second. That’s around 1,000 regular-sized photos every minute.
What will stop you in your tracks is the price – SanDisk will ask for USD$400 for each one of these babies. So given the price tag, it will only make sense if you have a device with a great screen that can display the 4K resolution videos you will stuff this microSD card with. OR, you might want to carry along a humongous lossless audio music collection. Other than that, what’s the point?
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SOURCE: SanDisk