Western Digital has announced the world's first 4 terabyte SD card, a new capacity point that the company will begin shipping in 2025.

WD is showing off a 4TB SanDisk Extreme PRO SDUC UHS-I memory card (with a slightly higher capacity than pictured at the top of this story) at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) show this week, which will cater to broadcasters and content. Is. The creator

WD isn't saying what the new 4TB card will cost. Anandatek, who saw The announcement states that the card uses the UHS-I bus at Speed ​​Class 10. WD's SD card is also rated to meet Video Speed ​​Class V30, which supports a minimum sequential write speed of 30 MB/s, which is considered good enough. For 8K video recording.

Although the capacity point of the new cards is approaching that of more traditional SSDs, you probably shouldn't consider the cards for long-term storage. gave SD card age Depending on the type of memory used, environmental conditions and other factors, it is generally considered to be around ten years. Consider one of Our best SSDs or External drives Instead

WD is also announcing. 24TB G-Drive, an external desktop hard drive, for $699. You can also buy a similar 24TB G-Drive project for $929, which includes a 40Gbps Thunderbolt 3/USB-C port (probably overkill for a drive with only 260MB/s read/write throughput) and a 48TB version ( mirror drive) for $1,599. The latter uses an additional 24TB as a RAID-1 mirrored backup.