Lexar Announces New PLAY microSDXC UHS-I Memory Card

[btarunr]

Lexar, a leading global brand of flash memory solutions, is proud to announce the Lexar PLAY microSD card. The Lexar PLAY microSDXC UHS-I Card is designed to keep up with all your content, no matter if they are games, movies, music or books. Avoid slow load times with read speeds of up to 150 MB/s and fast A1 or A2-rated performance, so you can play more of what you love without missing a beat. With large capacities up to 1 TB you can save all your favorite content and is ideal for portable gaming devices, smartphones, and tablets.

Cut down delays with fast transfer speeds of up to 150 MB/s and get A1 or A2-rated performance, so you can load apps faster on your mobile devices and play more of what you love without missing a beat. "The Lexar PLAY microSDXC Card is the perfect solution for gamers looking to take their game to the next level. It is compatible with the Nintendo Switch and other portable gaming devices including phones and tablets. With capacity options up to 1 TB, you can continue to game without running out of storage space," said Joel Boquiren, General Manager of Lexar.



Lexar PLAY microSDXC UHS-I card is available this month for purchase online at an MSRP of $21.99 USD (128 GB), $45.99 USD (256 GB), $94.99 USD (512 GB), and $249.99 USD (1 TB).

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[tygrus]

The 150MB/s claim is for non-standard use. UHS-I has 104MB/s as a maximum transfer speed in the specs as used by most devices. Only a few card readers of the same brand as the card can operate these with DDR to achieve faster transfer rates. If they made them fully UHS-II or UHS-III spec then it would be fairer to market the 150MB/s & have it work at that speed in more devices.

UHS-I​

Specified in SD version 3.01. (Circa 2010) UHS-I cards declared as UHS104 (SDR104) also support a clock frequency of 208 MHz, which could transfer 104 MB/s.

There is a proprietary UHS-I extension primarily by SanDisk that increases transfer speed further called DDR208 (or DDR200). Unlike UHS-II, it does not use additional pins. It achieves this by using the 208 MHz frequency of the standard SDR104 mode, but using DDR transfers.

(Some copy&paste from Wikipedia plus edit)

 

[SrKag]

Class 10 / U1 / V10 levels and that basically means it is capable of sustained 10 MB/s writing speeds

 

[Readlight]

I don't trust this data storage longevity.