Something to anticipate: Excellent news for Steam Deck owners, drone users, electronic camera fans, and anybody else who values the benefit of having mass storage offered in a portable type aspect. Western Digital has actually revealed the world’s very first 8TB SD card and 16TB external SSD for customers.
Western Digital, which owns the SanDisk brand name, is flaunting a number of items at the Future Memory and Storage Conference (FMS2024), a flash memory conference and exhibit occasion.
The business revealed it is presenting the world’s very first SanDisk 4TB microSDUC UHS-I card in addition to a bigger SDUC UHS-I SD card with an 8TB capability. The cards will reach an optimum speed of 100MB/s, and Western Digital states they ought to be perfect for mobile phones, video gaming gadgets, drones, video cameras, and laptop computers.
Another of the business’s customer items is its first-ever 16TB variation of the SanDisk Desk Drive, double the capability of its present biggest external SSD. Western Digital stated a portable variation of the drive, most likely in its Extreme Portable SSD variety, remains in the proof-of-concept phase, however WD will no doubt be pressing difficult to get it on the marketplace rapidly.
Far from portable storage, WD is demoing BiCS8 efficiency and mainstream PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSDs utilizing AI PCs, video gaming rigs, workstations, laptop computers, and more.
The information center market is a significant location for business nowadays. Western Digital’s associated items consist of a 128TB high-capacity QLC eSSD that utilizes its 8th-gen NAND developed for quick AI information lakes and capacity-intensive efficiency applications. WD is likewise flaunting the world’s very first 32TB ePMR SMR HDD for huge information storage at scale and a brand-new 64TB eSSD for storage-intensive applications.
Somewhere Else, WD is showing a brand-new RapidFlex interposer that transforms PCIe SSD signals to Ethernet. This permits PCIe eSSDs can be released in either an Ethernet-switched or a PCIe-switched system architecture, such as the OpenFlex Data24 4200 NVMe-oF storage platform.
There’s no word on the possible rate or release date of the high-capacity customer SSDs and SD cards, however we understand they’ll bring a significant cost. The 8TB SanDisk Desk Drive is $700, and the 1TB SanDisk Extreme Pro SD UHS-I sd card with speeds of approximately 90MB/s is $180.
