Forward-looking: Most highly recommended microSD cards offer maximum read speeds of around 250 MB/s, but the impending release of the Nintendo Switch 2 has increased demand for significantly faster ...

In October 2023 I wrote an article here with the headline: Dead and buried already? The latest SD card standard is fast but flawed. This was in reference to a then-new update to the little-known SD ...

Samsung’s upcoming microSD card will offer a dramatic speed boost. The company’s 256GB SD Express microSD — Samsung’s first SD Express card — can read data at up to 800 MB/s, significantly faster than ...

Hangu Sohn, the global vice president of Samsung Electronics Brand Storage Division, emphasized the significance of these advancements, stating that the new microSD cards deliver SSD-level performance ...

TL;DR: A Nintendo job listing suggests the Switch 2 may use SD Express storage, offering speeds up to 985 MB/sec, significantly faster than the current Switch. This could enhance gameplay with quicker ...

TL;DR: ADATA has launched the industry's first SD Express 8.0 memory card, offering 512GB capacity with ultra-fast read/write speeds up to 1.6GB/sec and 1.2GB/sec. Featuring PCIe Gen3 x2 and NVMe ...

Big news for people who like (physically) small storage: Samsung says that it is sampling its first microSD cards that support the SD Express standard, which will allow them to hit sustained read ...

When Nintendo announced the Switch 2, it said that the console only supports expansion through MicroSD Express cards. This is a huge pain for anyone with a collection of existing MicroSD cards, but it ...

The latest in microSD cards are here from Samsung, and this uses the industry-first 'SD Express' technology which upgrades more of the storage device's capabilities in handling read and write features ...

Expandable storage via microSD cards has largely fallen out of favor on mainstream phones and tablets, but it remains one of the easiest – and often only – ways to add storage on more specialized ...