Earlier today, Samsung unveiled their new highest capacity microSD memory card in the EVO+ lineup. Whilst we have not gotten a chance to try out this line up yet, its performance haven’t seem to be anything stellar from the EVO series yet. However, the claims that Samsung is putting on this particular 256GB microSD card is really interesting.
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Samsung Electronics, an expert provider of advanced memory solutions, today unveiled its newest memory card globally – the EVO Plus 256GB microSD card. The EVO Plus 256GB offers the highest capacity for a microSD card in its class, delivering fast speeds and an expanded memory storage for use in premium smartphones and tablets, 360-degree video recorders, action cameras, and drones. Consumers can now record up to 12 hours of 4K UHD video or 33 hours of Full HD video on their mobile device or action camera without needing to change or replace the memory card, allowing them to experience more and worry less about running out of memory.
The EVO Plus 256GB raises the bar for capacity and performance of microSD cards thanks to Samsung’s advanced V-NAND technology, offering high read and write speeds of up to 95MB/s and 90MB/s, respectively. This level of performance will provide general consumers and professionals with superb user convenience for storing heavy-loaded, high-resolution photography and 4K video recording, as well as graphic intensive multimedia like virtual reality (VR) and gaming.
“With the upward trend of consumers using high-performance, high-capacity mobile devices, our new, V-NAND-based 256GB microSD card solution allows us to deliver the memory card consumers have been craving,” said Un-Soo Kim, Senior Vice President of Brand Product Marketing, Memory Business at Samsung Electronics. “Our EVO Plus 256GB microSD card, will provide consumers with large capacity, and high read and write speeds. We are excited to offer our customers convenient and seamless multimedia experiences when they access, store and share all of the content they create and capture.”
The EVO Plus 256GB microSD card provides advanced protection, capacity, and performance with long-term reliability needed to get the most out of today’s electronics, making it an ideal companion for high-end smartphones and tablets with a microSD slot, even in the most extreme conditions.
Samsung will offer the EVO Plus 256GB microSD card with a limited 10-year warranty in more than 50 countries, including the USA, Europe, China, and other regions starting in June 2016 for US$249.99 (Manufacturer’s suggested retail price).
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According to the press release, the new memory card will make use of the new V-Nand technology, first seen in their Samsung Evo 850 SSD line up. Now, it seems like they are starting to apply this to their microSD cards too.
Furthermore, with a speed claim of “read and write speeds of up to 95MB/s and 90MB/s“, this is putting the card to the identical level as those high end UHS-I cards such as the SanDisk Extreme Pro, Samsung PRO/PRO+. However, the fact that their own 128GB microSD is struggling to keep up to speed, really makes us wonder, if this card can do it.
However, until we have benchmarked the card, these are just our initial thoughts of it, but 256GB might be the new highest-capacity card available for consumers!
