Here's a challenge: do you reckon you can fill half-a-terabyte of memory using only a smartphone?
For some people, we're sure, the answer will be along the lines of “hold my beer while I set my camera to HDR mode and snap some selfies”. So the good news is that from February, you'll be able to lay out the readies on a 512 GB microSDXC card from Integral Memory.
At a transfer rate of 80 megabytes per second, you'd need more than an hour and a half to transfer a full card's worth of data; last year's 400 GB monster from SanDisk (no longer the world's biggest little memory card) still has the edge there, claiming a 100 MB/second transfer rate.
Integral's 512GB microSDXC V10, UHS-I U1 card is fast enough to meet V10 (Video speed class 10) for capturing full HD video.
Integral has put up a web page and a Spec sheet (pdf) for it.
Now we can set them up as media hubs for all.
(Score: 1) by mobydisk on Wednesday January 24 2018, @05:30PM (4 children)
Android supports removable Flash media which is great. Unfortunately, you can't *truly* put apps on the SD card. Sure, there is an option to do so, but it usually only moves a small percentage of the actual data onto the card. So I have a 16GB internal memory on my S5, and I have a 1GB app, with 100MB of that app is on the SD card. I'll upgrade to a new Android phone and buy a bigger SD once they fix this. Until then, most of what I need the SD card for is wasted.
(Score: 2) by Techwolf on Wednesday January 24 2018, @06:25PM (3 children)
Android now supports mounting the SD cards as removable media or mount as system. Meaning format the card to ext3/4 and mount it where programs are stored. Expanding internal memory.
(Score: 1) by magnesium on Wednesday January 24 2018, @09:06PM (2 children)
do you have a url with details?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 24 2018, @09:55PM
Since marshmallow.
Ever hear of google?
(Score: 2) by Techwolf on Sunday January 28 2018, @09:21PM
No need. Put a new blank SD card and it will ask you to format for external removable or expand internal memory.