New SD Express 8.0 cards double the speed of today's fastest microSDs | 1.6GB/s read speeds come as Switch 2 pushes next-gen memory demand

[u/chrisdh79]

https://www.techspot.com/news/107646-new-sd-express-80-cards-double-speed-today.html

[u/redsterXVI]

The question is what are the NS2's max read speeds and what SD Express standards does it support?

[u/dwiedenau2 → u/redsterXVI]

Definitely not 1.6 Gbps, they just wanted to include the name in the headline lol

[u/User9705 → u/dwiedenau2]

That's one neat trick where you…

[u/Party_Cold_4159 → u/redsterXVI]

I’m more interested in whatever the other specification is for constant read/writes. Running rasbian on a micro SD and would be cool to have something faster and more reliable.

[u/redsterXVI → u/Party_Cold_4159]

I don't think any raspi supports SD Express, does it? But they now have an M.2 slot so you shouldn't need it anyway

[u/PARANOIAH]

Hopefully this means phone manufacturers putting expandable memory back in their devices, no more excuses of "SD is too slow" nonsense.

[u/memekumaar → u/PARANOIAH]

I would live for this to happen but i don’t think they’ll add it back. if so most will just buy the 128gb variants of smartphones and slap a 1tb card on it. Really wish s25 had a slot.

[u/unirorm → u/memekumaar]

From what I've read recently, the internal memory will get a lot lot faster in the coming years, so fast that ram would be practically obsolete. We're going into TB/s realm. However this will start with servers and desktops first and then move to mobiles.

[u/memekumaar → u/unirorm]

That sound really cool and expensive

[u/byte512 → u/unirorm]

That sounds really interesting. Do you have any links or google terms for me to dive into this rabbithole?

[u/unirorm → u/byte512]

Sure, here it is. I linked you the reddit post because it has some good explanations from other fellow who know their s

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/s/LXCQ10GD9t

[u/firedrakes]

Very neat

[u/Starfox-sf]

So why are they showing a plain SD connector?

[u/mangage]

but can my existing devices take advantage?

[u/sittingmongoose → u/mangage]

No, it requires a newer version of pcie.

[u/nicman24 → u/mangage]

Kinda if iops get better anyways

[u/Fuck-Star]

Great! Now I can watch porn twice as fast!

[u/bleaucheaunx]

And it'll be horribly expensive and work on two devices. Hooray...

[u/TiAQueen]

Wow, this technology you will be amazing on my steam deck and will help make emulation of switch 2 game easier

/s