Toshiba Bringing Out HD microSD Exceria Card

Toshiba Corporation will expand its family of EXCERIA memory cards with new microSD versions offering leading performance in this format.

EXCERIA (derived from a combination of ‘excellent’ and ‘experience’)
offers cards compliant with the UHS-I Memory Card Standard (UHS-I is the
high-speed interface Memory Card Standard V3.0 that delivers data at
maximum bus transfer rate from 25 to 104MB/s.).

The minimum recording speed is compliant with UHS speed class 1 (minimum
read and write speed is 10MB/s) and SD speed class 10 (minimum read and
write speed is 10MB/s).

These cards deliver the capacity, speed and performance needed to
support the capabilities of the latest personal digital equipment
including HD video recording and continuous image shooting with digital
cameras.

The first microSD EXCERIA cards to be introduced will be the Type HD
series. These are designed for use in extreme conditions and are
intended to meet the needs of applications such as professional and
sports photography where reliability is essential. In addition to water
resistance (according to Toshiba tests based on the IPX7 standard), the
cards also protect data from the effects of airport x-ray scanners.

Type HD microSD cards have a maximum read speed of 95MB/s and a maximum write speed of 30M/s.

The first models will be available in Q4 2012 with capacities between 8GB and 32GB.