Now there’s a 512GB microSD card and it costs more than a flagship phone

Not too long back SanDisk unleashed a tiny yet enormous 200GB microSD card designed to tackle our ever increasing need for storage space.

Then came along the Microdia Xtra Elite microSD card that packs more than double of that, bearing the largest amount of microSD storage to date at  whopping 512GB in its teeny frame. The SDXC format allows for cards of up to 2 TB in volume but this is still the biggest we’ve seen so far.

Microdia says the card will set you back about $1,000 (about RM 3712) and that’s almost twice the price of your average flagship device. However it should be mentioned that the vast majority of smartphones and subsequent microSD compatible devices do not yet support such a large external storage capacity; with the LG G4 and the HTC One M9 being the only ones so far that can support up to 2TB. You could argue that the card is quite future proof but it’s not entirely feasible till more phones (and cameras) can support microSD cards of this magnitude. But if you still insist on

The Xtra Elite will also be featuring a Ultra High Speed (UHS) bus with data transfer rates of up to 300MBps and will be using version 4.0 of the Secure Digital standard which also gives it an additional row of pins under the usual ones. The card is mostly expected to be used my pro photographers by the manufacturer due to the large volume and speed.

The card goes on sale in July though the final retail price hasn’t been finalised as of yet but this is one microSD card you don’t want to accidentally lose.

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