Western Digital has introduced the world’s first-ever 4-terabyte SD card, a brand new capability level that the corporate will start transport in 2025.

WD is displaying off the 4TB SanDisk Extreme PRO SDUC UHS-I reminiscence card this week (with a bit extra capability than the picture on the high of this story) on the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) present, which caters to broadcasters and content material creators.

WD isn’t saying that the brand new 4TB card will value. Anandtech, which noticed the announcement, mentioned that the cardboard makes use of the UHS-I bus at Speed Class 10. WD’s SD card can also be rated to satisfy Video Speed Class V30, supporting a minimal sequential write pace of 30 MB/s, which is believed to be ok for 8K video recording.

Though the capability level of the brand new playing cards is approaching that of extra standard SSDs, you in all probability shouldn’t take into account the playing cards for long-term storage. The lifespan of an SD card is dependent upon the kind of reminiscence used, environmental situations, and different elements, and is usually thought of to be about ten years. Consider one in every of our best SSDs or external drives as a substitute.

WD can also be saying the 24TB G-Drive, an exterior desktop arduous drive, for $699. You can even buy an identical 24TB G-Drive Project for $929, which features a 40Gbps Thunderbolt 3/USB-C port (in all probability overkill for a drive with solely 260MB/s learn/write throughput) and a 48TB model (the Mirror drive) for $1,599. The latter makes use of an extra 24TB as a RAID-1 mirrored backup.