Western Digital today introduced the world’s highest-capacity SD and microSD cards, a high-capacity external SSD, and several advanced storage solutions for enterprise customers.
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Western Digital, which owns the SanDisk brand, unveiled new products at the Future Memory and Storage Conference. These included the world’s first SanDisk microSDUC UHS-I memory card with a capacity of 4 TB and an even larger SDUC UHS-I with a capacity of 8 TB. They offer speeds of up to 100 MB/s and, according to the manufacturer, are suitable for smartphones, gaming devices, drones, cameras and laptops. Another product aimed at consumers was the SanDisk Desk Drive with a capacity of 16 TB – twice as large as the company’s largest external SSD. A portable version of the drive is also in the works – probably in the SanDisk Extreme Portable line.
The company also showcased the high-speed BiCS8 memory and mass-market NVMe PCIe 5.0 drives at the event, designed for use in AI PCs. Western Digital used 8th-generation QLC NAND memory in a 128TB enterprise SSD aimed at AI systems and storage-intensive applications. A 32TB drive was also shown at the event. hard disk ePMR SMR Finally, Western Digital demonstrated a RapidFlex adapter that converts PCIe signals to Ethernet, which can be used in the OpenFlex Data24 4200 NVMe-oF platform.
The manufacturer has not yet announced prices and release dates for SD cards for consumer solid-state drives.
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