Samsung unveils new Pro Plus and Evo Plus microSD cards with up to 1TB capacity | Infinium-tech
Remember microSD cards? While it’s pretty rare to find microSD cards in modern smartphones, drones, action cameras, and handheld consoles like the Nintendo Switch still rely heavily on these cards for storage – and as always, the bigger and faster the card, the better.
Samsung is introducing new Pro Plus and Evo Plus microSD cards with capacities up to 1TB. The average Switch game is about 10GB, so you can store about 90 of them (keep in mind there’s some file system overhead), though some are larger. For example, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Complete Edition It is approximately 40GB.
New Samsung Pro Plus microSD card
These new cards use a new 28nm controller, which is more power efficient than the 55nm controller used in older microSD cards. Also, the new controller supports low density parity check error correction code, which improves the durability of the card in terms of write-and-erase cycles. The performance improvement is also attributed to the use of 8th generation V-NAND technology in the card.
The new Samsung Pro Plus cards are quite fast, promising sequential read speeds of up to 180MB/s and sequential write speeds of up to 130MB/s. The Evo Plus cards are slightly slower at 160MB/s read and 120MB/s write speeds. The cards are rated A2 for application storage, U3 and V30 for general file storage and 4K video recording.
New Samsung Evo Plus MicroSD Card
These come in several sizes: 128GB, 256GB, 512GB and 1TB. The Evo Plus model also has a 64GB version, but that’s much slower – 60MB/s read, 20MB/s write and only has an A1/U1/V10 rating. All cards have a 10-year limited warranty. They’re designed to withstand water, high temperatures, X-rays and magnetic fields.
The new cards are already available globally. The faster Pro Plus models start at $25 for a 128GB card and go up to $154 for a 1TB model. The Evo Plus are cheaper, with the 1TB model being $132 (and the 64GB one is $13, but, as mentioned above, it’s much slower).
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