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Toshiba Intros SD Cards With Near SSD Speeds

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These SD cards are compliant with UHS-II.

Toshiba on Wednesday revealed a new batch of "Exceria" SD memory cards integrated with a newly developed controller compliant with UHS-II, the ultra-high speed serial bus interface defined in SD Memory Card Standard Ver. 4.10. These new cards offer the world's fastest data write speed, the company said, and will be launched in major markets worldwide, starting with Japan in October.

"While digital cameras have made huge strides in image quality and versatility, users have long wanted to see improvements in data transfer rates and write times, so as to be able to takes bursts of photographs in quick succession," the company said. "This demand has grown increasingly strong as high performance digital single-lens reflex cameras and mirrorless interchangeable-lens cameras have gained popularity and moved into the mainstream."

Exceria cards compliant with UHS-II will be available in two groups: the vanilla Exceria Series and the Exceria Pro Series. The Pro versions will offer data write speeds up to 240 MB/s (aka "the world's fastest") and data read speeds up to 260 MB/s. The non-Pro cards will have data write speeds up to 120 MB/s and data read speeds up to 260 MB/s. Both groups will offer 16 GB and 32 GB capacities.

So far pricing is set to "open", but Toshiba's schedule shows the Exceria Pro cards arriving first in October followed by the regular Exceria cards in November. Keep in mind that Toshiba already offers a line of Exceria cards compliant with the SD Memory Card Standard Ver.3.0 UHS-I with read speeds up to 95 MB/s and write speeds up to 90 MB/s. This new set launching in the fall is UHS-II compliant, offering faster data transfers than ones on the market now.

"Further advances in higher resolution image recording (including 4K2K video), will fuel demand for transfers of data-rich images at high speed," the company said. "Looking to the future, Toshiba, a world leader in the NAND flash memory business, will continue to meet market demands by enhancing its line-up of UHS-II compliant SD memory cards."

For more information about Toshiba's line of Exceria cards, head here. We'll keep you posted on the pricing of the new UHS-II compliant models.

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    SR-71 Blackbird , July 19, 2013 7:40 AM
    Nice!!!!!!!!!!!
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    __-_-_-__ , July 19, 2013 7:46 AM
    that! is impressive! more then twice the current fastest ones.
    will it be compatible with sdhc?
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    tntom , July 19, 2013 9:00 AM
    Can anyone tell me if these can provide a tangible benefit when used in conjunction with Windows Ready Boost? Such as a laptop with a USB 3.0 card reader and a traditional HDD?
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    jn77 , July 19, 2013 10:06 AM
    So which companies actually make flash memory and/ or controlers? Sandisk use to be really popular, but they are starting to lag behind the competition, or at least they are no longer a market leader in any form for memory cards.
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    anything4this , July 19, 2013 10:10 AM
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    Can anyone tell me if these can provide a tangible benefit when used in conjunction with Windows Ready Boost? Such as a laptop with a USB 3.0 card reader and a traditional HDD?


    No it wont benefit you unless you have 2gb of ram or less.

    If you have a laptop that is usb 3.0, that would mean it uses ddr3 ram, which you can upgrade cheaply and easily, destroying anything ready boost can offer.
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    JPNpower , July 19, 2013 10:33 AM
    JN77,

    SanDisk and Toshiba produce and develop flash together.

    What makes you say SanDisk is lagging? Their sd cards are awesome, and they practically dominate the NAND market
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    Shawna593767 , July 19, 2013 1:21 PM
    Raspberry pi?
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    back_by_demand , July 19, 2013 3:48 PM
    Drop it to micro-SD and put on in a Surface Pro, then come talk to me
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    back_by_demand , July 19, 2013 3:49 PM
    Drop it to micro-SD and put on in a Surface Pro, then come talk to me
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    chicofehr , July 19, 2013 4:40 PM
    Useless for pictures but for Hi Def and 4K video cameras, very useful. I'll wait till they have it in a 128GB flavour as 32GB can get eaten pretty fast at 1080 60p.
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    eddieroolz , July 20, 2013 12:41 AM
    Soon the SD card as bottleneck in high-FPS dSLR will be a thing of the past!
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    jn77 , July 20, 2013 9:43 AM
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    JN77,

    SanDisk and Toshiba produce and develop flash together.

    What makes you say SanDisk is lagging? Their sd cards are awesome, and they practically dominate the NAND market


    I guess because I am a power user and back at CES or one of the tech expos in 2008 some companies showed off 128,256,512gb and 1 and 2 TB MicroSDXC cards, so we know they exist.

    Yet Sandisk and Toshiba, or other flash memory providers are not releasing 128gb and higher flash products on a consistent basis.

    Apple (as much as I love them) has come out with a 128gb Ipad, Samsung has not come out with a 64gb or larger Nexus tablet,

    The GS3, GS4 and Note 2 support ExFAT so they can accept 64gb + storage cards. I would love to purchase a tablet that has 128, 256,512gb or even 1Tb of storage on it, and I would like to see those MicroSDXC cards in those sizes too. (64gb does not cut it anymore).

    Maybe with the UHS Class II read and write speeds, we will start seeing the larger cards come out.

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    alidan , July 20, 2013 11:49 AM
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    Useless for pictures but for Hi Def and 4K video cameras, very useful. I'll wait till they have it in a 128GB flavour as 32GB can get eaten pretty fast at 1080 60p.


    you either dont know of/never used a HQ camera that can take pictures faster than you can store them.

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    JN77,

    SanDisk and Toshiba produce and develop flash together.

    What makes you say SanDisk is lagging? Their sd cards are awesome, and they practically dominate the NAND market


    I guess because I am a power user and back at CES or one of the tech expos in 2008 some companies showed off 128,256,512gb and 1 and 2 TB MicroSDXC cards, so we know they exist.

    Yet Sandisk and Toshiba, or other flash memory providers are not releasing 128gb and higher flash products on a consistent basis.

    Apple (as much as I love them) has come out with a 128gb Ipad, Samsung has not come out with a 64gb or larger Nexus tablet,

    The GS3, GS4 and Note 2 support ExFAT so they can accept 64gb + storage cards. I would love to purchase a tablet that has 128, 256,512gb or even 1Tb of storage on it, and I would like to see those MicroSDXC cards in those sizes too. (64gb does not cut it anymore).

    Maybe with the UHS Class II read and write speeds, we will start seeing the larger cards come out.



    personally, i would rather tablets just come with a little more than what it takes the load the os, and offset it with 20-50$ voucher for a sd card.
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    JPNpower , July 20, 2013 3:09 PM
    Thanks JN77,

    Sandisk seems to focus on sheer performance more than capacity.
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    CrArC , July 22, 2013 5:57 AM
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    Can anyone tell me if these can provide a tangible benefit when used in conjunction with Windows Ready Boost? Such as a laptop with a USB 3.0 card reader and a traditional HDD?


    Don't waste your time... ReadyBoost is not worth the hassle. For the price these cards will likely sell you can probably buy a small SSD anyway, which will yield vastly higher performance improvements.

    Buy more RAM, get an SSD, and forget about ReadyBoost, my friend.
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    _Cosmin_ , July 22, 2013 9:05 AM
    They are for the Ultra High Speed Interface... so it won`t help on older devices...and until they become affordable there will be others cards/devices more advanced... so - if you already have a device is not worth the upgrade to those cards.
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    WyomingKnott , July 23, 2013 1:02 PM
    Are there any on-the-market devices that can use the UHS-II standard and allow these cards to run at significant fractions of their speed, or is it a curiosity for now?