Media storage brand Lexar is currently working on the development of new SD Express and Micro SD Express cards. Promising to be three times faster than the best UHS-II SD cards currently on the market, this new memory cards might hit the shelves in 2022. As an increasing number of cameras are now offering high-resolution, high-frame rate or RAW video recording capabilities, media storage technology must keep up. These video applications are extremely demanding. A tremendous amount of data is produced every second, requiring memory cards to be faster than ever. Many camera manufacturers have already adopted the CFexpress standard, like Sony with the a7s III and Canon with the R5. Nonetheless, Lexar announced that they’re currently working on the development of new SD Express and Micro SD Express cards, offering high-speed data rates in a small form factor. Hopefully it’s not too late to sit at the table! Lexar SD Express 512GB card. Source: Lexar SD Express and Micro SD Express: read and write speeds According to Lexar, SD Express cards will be three times faster than UHS-II SD cards currently available on the market. Built upon the PCI Express (PCIe) specification and exploiting the NVMe Express (NVMe) protocol, these new cards should be able to reach read speeds up to 824MB/s and write speeds up to 410MB/s, outperforming even the fastest conventional SATA III SSDs. They will come in two flavours: SD Express and Micro SD Express. The former will be available up to 512GB, while the maximum...
Published By: CineD - Tuesday, 29 June, 2021