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Nintendo Switch 2 is all the rage and if you are a gamer, the upgrade and understanding of the newest SDXC Express Memory is is an asset. To so many, it reflects no more than a massive price jump in microSD cards. To those in the know, microSD Express speaks to a 3x jump in data game loads from that card, moving game scenes from 300MB/s to faster than 900MB/s theoretically.
A bit more complicated of an explanation perhaps but, UHS-I is restricted by its bus interface whereas direct connect is established to higher speeds through the PCIe interface of microSDXC Express. We have published two reports on the ADATA Premier Extreme and Lexar Play Pro SDXC Express Cards recently. Check them out!
Our report today is on the SanDisk microSDXC Express 256GB Memory Card and, fortunate for us, SanDisk also sent along its Pro-Reader SD Express Dual Card Reader as well. This was a very good thing as the Pro-Reader provides a method of thermal dissipation when the microSD card heats up during testing, whereas our original card readers provided some time ago did not.
The Pro-Reader comes with an Instruction and warranty booklet, the Pro-Reader and a 10Gbps rated cable. This Pro-Reader is both Windows and Mac compatible with both SD Express and UHS-I cards and comes with a 3-year warranty. Check SanDisk Pro-Reader pricing here.
The Pro-Reader has a Type-C connector on one side along with a small switch just to the left of that for write-protecting your microSD card, while on the other it has a microSD and SDXC slot, as shown on the face of the packaging in the photo above.
The SanDisk microSDXC Express card is available in 128, 256 and 512GB capacities, has a PCIe® 3.1 NVMe™ interface and comes with a lifetime limited warranty. It is detailed as being waterproof, temperature-proof, humidity-proof, drop-proof, shock-proof, magnetic-proof, x-ray proof, and wear-out proof.
Checking Amazon, we can find the SanDisk SD Express Dual Card Pro-Reader priced at 99.99 while the microSD Express card itself is listed at $53.99 (128GB), $69.22 (256GB) and $112.99 for the 512GB capacity.