That’s interesting, but it will be bottlenecked in 95% of the cases right now by the connecting hardware, right?
How is the write endurance? IOPS? It seems like no articles are talking about that.
They’re like £30 for 256GB. Endurance will be shit, but when it fucks up you just get another.
They already make SD cards that can go 800MB/s but for the larger form factor and mostly used on DSLR cameras. The manufacturers will need to start implementing this new cards to our newest gadgets.
The cards that full frame cameras use to hit 800mbps are CF not SD. Functionally very similar, but you can’t just pop it in your laptop. You need an external reader. The nice thing about SD catching up to the CF spec is backwards compatibility. You can take your 800mbps SD Express and throw it in your laptop’s SD card slot and use it, even if it’s only at 100mbps because the laptop still uses an old SD version. No such luck with CF Express unless they can convince people to build CF ports into laptops and phones (though SD is just about dead in phones).
So does that mean they’ll start putting SD slots on their phones again?
Digital cameras need this kind of speed to dump larger and larger RAW images, especially with things like burst mode. No one cares about your Steam Deck lol.
