SanDisk’s newest UHS-II V90 SD cards write all the way up to 300MB/sec
Nov 28, 2024
John Aldred
John Aldred is a photographer with over 25 years of experience in the portrait and commercial worlds. He is based in Scotland and has been an early adopter – and occasional beta tester – of almost every digital imaging technology in that time. As well as his creative visual work, John uses 3D printing, electronics and programming to create his own photography and filmmaking tools and consults for a number of brands across the industry.
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SanDisk has announced its newest round of Extreme Pro UHS-II SD V90 cards. Available in 64GB ($84.99)128GB ($129.99), 256GB ($239.99) and 512GB ($519.99) capacities, the refreshed lineup offers read speeds of up to 300MB. This is pretty standard, but the new cards also offer write speeds of up to 300MB/sec.
This is up from the 260MB/sec max write speed of its predecessor. Of course, it’s still V90 rated, so it only guarantees a minimum of 90MB/sec sustained writes. But the only place you need this is in your camera, and V90’s as good as they get.
SanDisk’s Fastest UHS-II SD Cards
The new UHS-II V90 SanDisk Extreme Pro SD cards are the company’s fastest yet, pretty much maxing out the specification. UHS-II has a theoretical maximum speed of 312MB/sec, three times that of UHS-I’s theoretical limit of 104MB/sec.
Of course, SanDisk – and others – have managed to break around the 104MB/sec barrier with UHS-I cards through the use of custom protocols. Now that cards are getting to the sizes they are, maybe we’ll start to see companies breaking past UHS-II’s 312MB/sec limit soon, too.
After all, those big 512GB cards are nice but even with 300MB/sec transfer rates, it’s still going to take almost half an hour to offload it – assuming you don’t see any slowdowns during the transfer.
As with most new memory card releases, there’s little point in urgently upgrading. But when the time comes that you need more cards – and that time always comes – now you can get some faster ones.
Price and Availability
The new SanDisk Extreme Pro UHS-II V90 SD Cards are available to pre-order now in four capacities. 64GB is $84.99, 128GB for $129.99, 256GB for $239.99 and 512GB for $519.99.
John Aldred
John Aldred is a photographer with over 25 years of experience in the portrait and commercial worlds. He is based in Scotland and has been an early adopter – and occasional beta tester – of almost every digital imaging technology in that time. As well as his creative visual work, John uses 3D printing, electronics and programming to create his own photography and filmmaking tools and consults for a number of brands across the industry.
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