ADATA Premiers its new SD Card which is faster than Current-Gen SSDs

ADATA claims this device will use PCIe Gen 3x1 and NVMe v1.3 protocol and can hit a speed of reading and writing up to 700MB to 800MB.

ADATA SD Card faster than SSD

ADATA is the world’s largest Memory Card manufacturing and selling company. Manufacturing extremely small SD Cards with extremely fast speed for decades. But recently things get more heat up. ADATA Premiers its new SD Card which is faster than Current-Gen SSDs.

ADATA named their new SD Card Extreme SDXC SD 7.0 Express Card. ADATA claims this device will use PCIe Gen 3x1 and NVMe v1.3 protocol and can hit a speed of reading and writing up to 700MB to 800MB. ADATA also claims that this SD Card is about 1.5 times faster than a standard current-gen SATA SSD. Also compared to existing SD cards using the UHS-II SD and UHS-I SD interface, so it’s about 2.7 to 8 times faster.

This is an amazing and revolutionary upgrade from ADATA by just going beyond limits. In easy words, we can ADATA just integrated PCIe Express and NVME standards into a small SD Card body. One more best feature about this SD Card is that it’s backward compatible. Just buy and put it on any device and start reading and writing data. Even SD Express and microSD Express 7.0 can easily hit up to 1GBps reading speed.

So transferring data is faster now better than ever for Photography Cameras and Security Cameras as well as for Smartphones and Laptops. It takes a lot of time to store pictures as it is captured from a high pixels camera and then it also takes time in transferring too but not anymore. It can also be used as the main storage for laptops too because this SD got amazing transfer speed. Also for security cameras too, real-time transferring of data will be a lot faster now. Unfortunately, these SD cards are not directly accessible by Computers. Maybe in the future, this SD Card come as internal storage in smartphones.

Today SD Express 7.0 transfer speed is about 1GBps but ADATA is also working on SD Express 8.0 which has double speed compared to SD Express 7.0. SD Express 8.0 speed will be increased by doubling the PCIe lanes to get to 2.1GBps. But ADATA claims that SD Express 8.0 will hit up to 4GBps transferring speed when it will be introduced in the future.

ADATA didn’t announce the released date or price of this SD Card yet but it will go on sale in the market anytime soon.

by Jahangir Naseer