- LEXAR PLAY PRO MICROSDXC EXPRESS cards enable faster downloads and game load times
- Backrest compatible with UHS units but limited to slower speeds
- Nintendo Switch 2 supports MicroSD Express that increases industry adoption hope
Lexar arrived just in time for the impending launch of Nintendo Switch 2 and has introduced the world’s first 1TB MicroSD Express card, one of the largest and fastest MicroSD cards currently on the market.
Lexar Play Pro MicroSDXC Express offers reading speeds of up to 900 MB/s and writing speeds of up to 600 MB/s, making it suitable for demanding tasks such as accelerated downloads, high speed data transfers and faster game load times.
The map uses a combination of PCI Express 3.0 and NVME 1.3 -boundary surfaces – similar to those found in the best SSDs. This significantly reduces latency time and increases data transfer rates and delivers up to 10 times the performance of Standard MICRORSD cards.
However, MicroSD Express cards are currently only compatible with a limited number of devices that have so far limited a wider adoption. With the newly announced Switch 2, which allegedly uses this standard exclusively, the industry is optimistic for MicroSD Express to be more widely supported in future portable devices.
Can I use this card on regular microSD slots?
The Lexar Play Pro MicroSDXC Express card is backward compatible with UHS-I and UHS-II host units, which means it can still be used in older hardware. In such cases, however, the benefit will be uncovered at UHS -in -speeds -which is typically about 100 MB/s reading speed.
The new map comes with a limited lifetime warranty as well as Lexar Recovery Tool, which allows users to recover formatted or accidentally deleted files.
“The new MicroSD Express standard gives us a way to deliver a memory card with incomparable performance in this form factor,” said Joey Lopez, director of Brand Marketing at Lexar.
“We are happy to create a card for our customers who take advantage of this new standard and prepare players for the next generation of hand -held games.”
The Lexar MicroSD Express card is priced at $ 199.99 for the 1TB version, $ 99.99 for the 512 GB model and $ 49.99 for the 256 GB variant.
Via TechPowerup
