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Speedy “SD Express” cards have gone nowhere for years, but Samsung could change that | Compatibility issues and thermals have, so far, kept SD Express from taking off


Compatibility issues and thermals have, so far, kept SD Express from taking off.

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 speeds of as much as 800MB per second. And even if you had a card, you'd have trouble finding devices that could actually take advantage of the higher speeds, since most cameras, phones, and computers have opted to stick with the more common UHS. But SD cards are mainly useful because they're cheap, they're widely compatible, and they're fast enough for things like recording video, taking pictures, and loading games.

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