News First SD Express 8.0 memory card from Adata hits 1.6 GB/s read speeds — 512GB capacity, and U3/V30 compliant

[Admin]

Adata is launching the first SD Express 8.0 memory card, advertised to reach 1.6 GB/s and 1.2 GB/s read and write speeds.

First SD Express 8.0 memory card from Adata hits 1.6 GB/s read speeds — 512GB capacity, and U3/V30 compliant : Read more

 

[bkuhl]

I saved for a bit back in like 2011 when SSDs where like $500 for a 256GB model... Picked up an Adata drive and could not get my Mac Pro to recognize it for [Mod Edit]. Finally gave up and brough it back to Microcenter and they were like... we get a lot of these DOA.
Saved a bit more and picked up a Micron and swore off anything from Adata ever since....

 

[YSCCC]

The SD Express, unlike CF express basically have no market after so many revisions, mainly due to the form factor lack of backward compatibility and will be very slow if used in a non sd express slot, and seems the real potential usecase I can think of are the higher end mirrorless cameras or pro video cameras, which normally have a CF express slot serving the need of high speed raw images, and the UHS-II is more than enough as a backup slot. for the rest of use case, the high cost and need to re purchase all the card readers are pure inhibiting adotion from manufacturers and without compatible gear, it will be hard to take up the momentum

 

[Heiro78]

The SD Express, unlike CF express basically have no market after so many revisions, mainly due to the form factor lack of backward compatibility and will be very slow if used in a non sd express slot, and seems the real potential usecase I can think of are the higher end mirrorless cameras or pro video cameras, which normally have a CF express slot serving the need of high speed raw images, and the UHS-II is more than enough as a backup slot. for the rest of use case, the high cost and need to re purchase all the card readers are pure inhibiting adotion from manufacturers and without compatible gear, it will be hard to take up the momentum

Not to mention the lack of microSD slots in most mainstream mobile phones.

 

[YSCCC]

Not to mention the lack of microSD slots in most mainstream mobile phones.

I believe for the memory cards the main market they will be in are the big mirrorless/DSLR/Videocam market, those are the ones which need a portable card with quick read/write speed to not let the card bottlenecking the continuous shooting (My Canon R5 mk II raw photo are about 60-70MB per photo, 30 FPS burst, and capable to take 8k video) those are the real scenarios where you would want the card to be quick enough to empty the internal buffer and it was the main drive for ppl to adopt CFast and CF Express back when Regular CF card isn't nearly fast enough. For SD Express they came out later than CF Express IIRC, and most importantly, SD are kind of secondary backup port for the higher end cameras, where capacity, price and compatability is the key. Thus the SD Express compatability issue is hindering adoption.

For switch etc. I don't see the need to really go for that SSD speed, let alone the high cost for gamers.

 

[t3t4]

The article talks about SD Express 8.0 compliant cards, but the picture clearly shows SD 7.0 right on the card 🤔? Regardless, 1.6 GB/s and 1.2 GB/s R/W speeds are quite fast for an SD card, but still pale in comparison to NVME. Is there really a need for faster more expensive SD cards when much faster storage already exists for less cost? I have UHS-II cards in my camera but never use them since external storage/recording is sooo much faster. Even cameras are beginning to adopt NVME, so I wonder how much life SD cards have left in them.

I'm not a gamer and couldn't care less about games or gaming, but I'm sure there is some argument for that side of the coin regarding SD cards.