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  • dsumanik - Tuesday, June 28, 2016 - link

    Targeted at high end smartphones?

    Confusing product because DSLR's are better off with UHS-II or XQD now and not many phones that can handle 95 mb/s. Regardless, 256 gig @ 95 mb/s is about 45 mins to fill or read an entire card, not exactly incredible speed.

    I like the microsd form factor though , hope it sticks around.
  • HomeworldFound - Tuesday, June 28, 2016 - link

    Could be worse, 25gb bd-r discs. I'll take the 45 minutes thanks.
  • BurntMyBacon - Wednesday, June 29, 2016 - link

    About a decade ago, Seagate was just starting to make use of PMR technology in consumer drives. Seagate and WD released 320GB drives (reviewed by Anandtech) that were slower than these. Even the raptor 150GB drives of the time barely peaked out at these rates.
    http://www.anandtech.com/show/2052/5

    These were the kind of drives enthusiasts of the time used for their primary boot drives. (0_0)
  • SetiroN - Tuesday, June 28, 2016 - link

    How is it a confusing product? You seem to be confused to me.

    Yes, these are for tablets and smartphones with a microSD slot. Cameras will (for the time being) always use larger, higher performance cards. 95Mb/s IS an incredible speed for those devices and such a small storage device.
  • dsumanik - Tuesday, June 28, 2016 - link

    I am confused because I am unaware of any tablet able to make use of the 95/mb speed, and it's only rated at lower-mid range speed for a modern DSLR.

    That spell it out loud and clear enough dummy?
  • SkiBum1207 - Tuesday, June 28, 2016 - link

    Sure, for optimal conditions (large sequential writes) 95 Mb/s may be not be attainable with current tablet and phone hardware.

    However, for many applications, the minimum write speed is more important - keep in mind that you can chuck one of these into a RPI and run CouchBase on it - that will definitely appreciate the improved performance floor.

    Also it's not like phone's and tablet's are getting slower interfaces. I'd rather have a card which my phone can't saturate than one which is near the peak capacity of my phone.
  • Impulses - Wednesday, June 29, 2016 - link

    Only recent and high end DSLR can fully exploit UHS-II cards/speeds, there's still a ton of cameras that don't, released this year and last. Not sure what that has to do with anything since few people would opt to use a micro card in a camera...

    Performance within the tablet or mobile device is also not the only consideration. If you're filling it up on a PC and then moving it to the tablet, or filling it up on a phone then moving it to the PC to offload photos/videos, the read/write speeds will absolutely matter...

    A $9 reader can max that out... So you're being needlessly dense.
  • dsumanik - Thursday, June 30, 2016 - link

    Dense is justifying this product because DSLR's cant exploit UHS-II, then sitting there waiting 45 mins for 256gb to transfer off of the card.

    PC/Macs definitely take advantage of all the UHS-II goodness and UHS-II is 100% backwards compatible with UHS-I, there no reason to not use it.

    Again, a confusing product with lower mid read/write and a several year old interface released in the 2016 market where much faster technology exists, making this product kind of obsolete on release.
  • SetiroN - Thursday, July 7, 2016 - link

    "dummy"?

    Why is this individual actually allowed to post on this site?

    You might be unaware of things (which foesn't surprise me), but countless 2-in-1s exist with microsd slots.
  • Spunjji - Friday, July 1, 2016 - link

    Surface Pro 3, Asus Transformer devices, any recent Android phone with MicroSD... these are all good places to use a card like this and where the speeds will be appreciated.

    Not sure why you bother stating how long the card takes to fill or read its entire area. That is relevant in maybe 1% of real-life scenarios.
  • CoreyWat - Tuesday, June 28, 2016 - link

    It's just a matter of time, before we see 1TB Micro SD Card.
  • SetiroN - Tuesday, June 28, 2016 - link

    Thanks grandpa, you always bring great insight.
  • dsraa - Wednesday, June 29, 2016 - link

    You know in my day we had floppy disk. Sonny do you know what a floppy disk is? Do you know how much a floppy disk held? Do you know when that was? 1990. Just 25 years.

    Yea, do yourself a favor and don't sound so much like an millenial idiot 12 year-old....
  • SanX - Wednesday, June 29, 2016 - link

    ...which like all of them after 10 read-writes will unrecoverably die
  • Rictorhell - Tuesday, June 28, 2016 - link

    Microdia announced and released images of a 512gb micro sdxc card, LAST summer, which was never actually available to purchase anywhere, as far as I can tell. Samsung, a company with a great reputation, announced a 256gb micro sdxc card last month, for release this month, guess what? I haven't been able to purchase or pre-order it, ANYWHERE. What's the deal memory companies?
  • HomeworldFound - Tuesday, June 28, 2016 - link

    If they sell you what you want now, what will they sell you later?
  • SetiroN - Tuesday, June 28, 2016 - link

    That microdia announcement was a publicity stunt.
    Samsung is late to market but I'm sure their cards will be arriving soon as well as Sandisk's.

    The only currently available 256gb microSD cards are from Integral. You can find them online (£139 in the UK).
  • Rictorhell - Tuesday, June 28, 2016 - link

    If it was a publicity stunt I hope someone got fired over it because it upset and disappointed A LOT of people.
  • dsumanik - Tuesday, June 28, 2016 - link

    The mfg's can and will milk every dime out of current gen products for as long as they possibly can.

    There is also a war going on with device makers over which format will be supported as the next standard, further slowing adoption. Take XQD for example, been out years now, but only this next upcoming one will see it begin to take off, because nikon finaly decided to support the standard. Everyone else was avoiding due to lame licensing agreements from sony, even though it was the fastest tech available.

    I suspect this is directly related to sony supplying sensors for nikon, surely a lower price was offered on sensors in exchange for endorsing XQD on thier new camera bodies..
  • biofishfreak - Tuesday, June 28, 2016 - link

    256GB in microSD form-factor would be great. I have a Surface Pro 4 w/ a microSD slot, and w/ a 128GB Sandisk Extreme, it's fast enough to use with VMware Workstation Pro. I use it mainly for ISOs and base VM images. The reason I spend extra for the Extreme is the lifetime warranty. Otherwise the Ultra is (generally) fast enough.
  • jabber - Wednesday, June 29, 2016 - link

    Yeah these are good for Chromebooks too. Especially with the Google Play store on the way.
  • cm2187 - Wednesday, June 29, 2016 - link

    Are we expecting all devices compatible with 128gb cards to be able to use it or is the 128gb also a compatibility limit (like some devices can only use 32gb micro sd cards)?
  • tiro_uspsss - Wednesday, June 29, 2016 - link

    there is virtually no compatibility limit -_- only lazy-ass companies not writing decent specs when marketing. I recently tested a 128GB mSD in a Samsung Galaxy S(1) (equivalent of an iPhone 3GS). Worked fine! SGS was running CM11, mSD @ exFAT.
  • Lonyo - Wednesday, June 29, 2016 - link

    That's what the XC part is. XC cards can go up to 2TB by spec. HC cards were limited to 32GB.
    In theory anything which supports MicroSD XC should support a 2TB MicroSD card if ever released.
    If your device only supports MicroSD HC then it will be limited to 32GB HC cards.
  • Sushisamurai - Wednesday, June 29, 2016 - link

    Yes! Backstage fashion action with Maja! Just the ad I was looking for!
  • Sushisamurai - Wednesday, June 29, 2016 - link

    I was merely kidding, but seriously, let's keep the ads to tech and or tech related sites.
  • BurntMyBacon - Wednesday, June 29, 2016 - link

    Yes. Please forward this feedback to Purch.
  • AbRASiON - Wednesday, June 29, 2016 - link

    UHS-1 (UHS-I) rather than 2? In mid 2016? On a super high end card?
    Lol, nope
  • SanX - Wednesday, June 29, 2016 - link

    Never heard on Anandtech anyone analyzed the dynamics of prices of electronics. Never heard about production cost of anything. Actually all tech media keeps mum about that for all the time computers exist.
  • pixelstuff - Wednesday, June 29, 2016 - link

    It's always exciting when they raise the bar on memory cards because it usually means the price drops on the lower capacities. Although, really we just need a proliferation of UHS-II cards. Especially at the 256GB+ capacity.

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