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SanDisk Extreme PRO Portable SSD Offers Blazing-Fast Speeds

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At CES 2019, SanDisk introduced a new Extreme PRO Portable SSD with a significant kick to its transfer speeds. The prior Extreme (no “pro” attached) models have been popular external drives among the photography crowd thanks to the relative affordability (particularly when on sale) and the speeds we get out of the SSD drive.

While the prior Extreme models yielded up to 550MB/s transfer speeds, the new generation of Extreme PRO drives pushes the data transfer rates up to 1GB/s and take full advantage of the USB 3.1 Gen 2 interface speed. SanDisk achieves these speeds thanks to the use of NVMe drives instead of an M.2 SATA SSD in the existing Extreme.

The new Extreme PRO Portable SSD drives come in the same 500GB, 1TB and 2TB capacity and will retails for $199, $349 and $599, respectively. The new drives will ship in Q2 this year. You can find out more about the new models on SanDisk’s website.

 

SanDisk Announces 1TB SDXC Memory Card

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Files sizes continue to grow larger but, thanks to memory card makers, there are bigger and bigger cards to handle our growing media demands. SanDisk’s news from Photokina 2016 provides us with a case in point.

SanDisk unveiled a new 1TB capacity SDXC card that’s in development. There’s no release date or price pinned on it yet. However, you can already buy a SanDisk 512GB SDXC card for $300, so it can’t be too far off — with an initial price over $600 I’m sure…

Deal: SanDisk 128GB UHS-I SDXC Card for $44

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SanDisk Ultra 128GB SDXC Card

B&H has the SanDisk 128GB Ultra UHS-I SDXC card for $44.54. As a UHS-I Class 10 card, this will work well for HD video capture and that high storage capacity will store a ton of compressed HD footage that most camcorders and DSLRs capture. Check it out here at B&H Photo.

You can learn more about SD cards and what the specifications mean in Demystifying SD Cards.

SanDisk Announces 4K-Capable 64GB Extreme PRO microSD Card

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SanDisk Extreme Pro microSD U3

SanDisk has announced a new line of Extreme PRO microSD cards with transfer speeds up to 95MB/s.

The card has a UHS-I bus and Speed Class 3 rating, which has been the minimum rating for 4K video capture in many recent 4K-capable cameras. The U3 rating means that the cards will deliver a minimum sustained write speed of 30MB/s.

The SanDisk Extreme Pro microSD UHS-I card is available in 16GB, 32GB and 64GB capacities and ranges in price from $79.99 to $299.99. Watch for them here at B&H Photo.

SanDisk Introduces the Extreme Pro CFast 2.0 Memory Card Into a Very Odd Format Civil War

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SanDisk has unveiled the world’s first CFast 2.0 memory card with its new Extreme Pro model that is available in 60GB and 120GB capacities.

The Extreme Pro CFast 2.0 just laid claim to the world’s fastest memory card, with read speeds of up to 450MB/s and write speeds up to 350MB/s, offering up to double the shot speed of today’s fastest cards. [Read more…]

SanDisk Developing CFast2.0 Memory Cards, Not XQD Cards

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SanDisk revealed at Photokina 2012 that it will be pushing toward memory card production on the new CFast2.0 specification memory cards and will not be delevoping XQD cards.

As of today, the only camera to support the XQD memory card format is the Nikon D4.  And while it is a great camera, no doubt, the single high-end model is not enough to push the demand in the market towards XQD as “the other memory card.”

CFast2.0 is a specification from the CompactFlash Association, which also designates the specification for current CF cards and the newer XQD cards.  CFast2.0 specs offer a theoretical performance up to 600MB/s data transfer speeds.

SanDisk is currently sampling new CFast2.0 cards to camera manufacturers to see if they will bite on the new specification in spite of the overwhelming move toward the SD card standard.  Medium format camera maker Phase One has already committed to putting the CFast2.0 cards to work in new cameras due to the higher performance over other card formats.

SanDisk 64GB Extreme Pro SDXC UHS-I Card Delivers on Speed

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SanDisk Extreme Pro 64GB SDXC Card

SanDisk has announced a new 64GB Extreme Pro SDXC UHS-I card to complement the existing line of 8GB to 32GB UHS-I cards announced earlier this year.  With a max write speed of 90MB/s and 95MB/s read speed, the new 64GB UHS-I card blows away the Extreme Pro UHS-I cards that were announced in January, which clocked in at 45MB/s. [Read more…]