Last September, SanDisk announced a premium SD card with an insane 512GB of storage space. Now, flash storage maker Microdia has matched that -- on a microSD. The Hong Kong-based company is showing off its ultra-compact storage device at Computex this week. Such a massive amount of storage in something that's about the size of a fingernail won't come cheap. SanDisk's 512GB SD card had an MSRP of $800 at launch. Microdia plans on charging $1,000 when the Xtra Elite microSD goes on sale in July, according to CNET . That puts the microSD card in exactly the same market as other high-capacity storage cards: photographers and other professionals who need massive storage in a tiny package. Microdia's Xtra Elite will allow for data transfer rates up to 300Mbps thanks to its Ultra High Speed (UHS) bus that features an extra row of pins. Before Microdia's microSD, the largest capacity we'd seen on a card that size was 200GB, which SanDisk introduced ...
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