SanDisk Crams 200GB of Storage into Latest microSD Card

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Big storage in a little card

There are several new phones and tablets being introduced at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, but on the storage side of things, SanDisk on Sunday introduced its 200GB Ultra microSDXC UHS-I card, Premium Edition. That's not just a massive amount of storage for a device that's about the size of your fingernail, it's the highest capacity microSD card in the world, according to SanDisk.
The 200GB card offers 56 percent more storage space than the record-breaking 128GB SanDisk Ultra microSDXC card the company introduced a year ago. Both were made possible by leveraging a proprietary technology the company designed last year that allows for a new design and production process with more bits per die.
"We continue to push technology boundaries to deliver record-breaking solutions that transform the way consumers use their mobile devices," said Dinesh Bahal, vice president, product marketing, SanDisk. "By focusing on achieving new capacity and speed milestones, we are able to deliver trusted mobile memory solutions that give consumers the freedom to never stop capturing, saving, or sharing – with the benefit of fast speeds to transfer it all quickly."
SanDisk says the card supports data transfers at up to 90MB per second, enough to push 1,200 photos every second. That combination of speed and capacity is certainly enticing. And expensive -- it will carry an MSRP of $400 when it becomes available in the second quarter.
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