Toshiba today announced that it will launch a new series of SD memory cards offering the world’s fastest data write speed. The latest edition to its line-up of EXCERIA memory cards designed to offer users of high-end digital cameras an excellent experience. EXCERIA cards compliant with UHS-II will be available in two series. The EXCERIA PRO series will offer photographers a data write speed of 240MB/sec2 the world’s fastest3, while the EXCERIA series will write at 120MB/sec. They will allow digital camera users to shoot still images continuously at high speed.
The cards are the first in the EXCERIA line-up to integrate a newly developed controller compliant with UHS-II4 the ultra-high speed serial bus interface defined in SD Memory Card Standard Ver. 4.10, and they achieve significantly higher data transfer speeds than earlier UHS-I compliant cards. The EXCERIA PROTM and EXCERIATM cards will be launched in major markets worldwide, starting with Japan in October.
