At a price tag of $450 world’s first 1TB MicroSD Card is revealed at MWC 2019. Western Digital released Sandisk Extreme UHS-I micro SDXC card and touted it not just a storage solution with high capacity but also with high data transfer speed. This puts a significant impact on the way users look to the card, without good speed a 1TB micro-card will nothing more than a never-ending data transfer process.
With 90MB/s write speed, a user can move a 1GB file within 12 seconds if the speed does not fluctuates. The card offers a much higher 160MB/s of reading speed, WD claims you can move 1000HD photos and a 4K video of half-hour within 3 minutes. A full 1TB file copy from your pc to the card will take approx. 3 hours and 30 minutes.
With high storage and speed the card also carry a very high price tag, $450 (approx. Rs.32000) for a MicroSDXC card will be ideal for those who are specifically searching for an exclusive solution. Affordable range of cards lies between 64GB to 128GB and the price jumps high in the sky for 256GB or higher variants. In such a scenario, 1TB storage is more like a capability test by the brand.
The second important thing is the usability in devices like Smartphone, Digital Cameras, etc. For mobile phone there are rare models that support expandable storage up to 1TB, 256GB is getting standard with mid-range to high-end devices that also comes with high in-built storage option already limiting the requirement for SD cards.
Such card is ideal for gaming consoles like Nintendo Switch who needs external storage for games. Switch is a hybrid console that offers mobile gaming along with wide screen display support and technically the console supports high storage.