Greater than seven months after it was unveiled, the world’s first 1.5TB microSD card, Micron’s MTSD1T5ANC8MS-1WT, has landed, properly virtually. A handful of tech wholesalers have listed the cardboard in any other case often called the i400 on their web site and relying on what number of you want and which territory you’re shopping for from, clients could have to attend for no less than 4 months. Mouser, Arrow and Avnet (plus its subsidiaries Farnell (opens in new tab), Newark (opens in new tab), Element14) have already listed it with Newark being the most cost effective at Newark, solely $420.53, a worth that features free supply.
Purchase no less than 12,000 of them to see the value drop to $381 (with a complete value of greater than $4.5m), not a nasty worth for 18PB (sure, that’s Petabytes) of stable state storage that ought to weigh, not more than 4Kg (with out the packaging in fact). In case you had been questioning, this microSD card prices about the identical as its weight in 0.125 carat diamond ($1.1m per Kg).
Equally vital is the info on these playing cards so keep in mind {that a} microSD is smaller than a fingernail. We suggest that you simply backup your information utilizing a cloud storage resolution (though you received’t discover any free cloud storage that may do 1.5TB).
What comes subsequent?
Micron was the primary out of the with a 1TB card. The C200 is sort of 4 years outdated and it’s solely prior to now few months that the common worth – and relative availability of – 1TB MicroSD playing cards has improved. However how lengthy will 1.5TB capability stay the king of the hill stays anybody’s guess; Kioxia unveiled a 2TB Exceria Plus prototype again in September 2022 however whereas a tentative 2023 launch has been muttered, it’s prone to rely on market situations (i.e. if there’s sufficient demand for it).
For these interested by buying it although, simply keep in mind that it has a formatted capability of 1,430,511 Megabytes. Samsung and Kingston, two of the most important stable state storage distributors, have but to launch any microSD playing cards with a 1TB or increased capability.
On the time of writing, the cheapest 1TB microSD card is a Silicon Power model at $87.99 (opens in new tab), a couple of third of the value per TB of Micron’s i40. Amazon has a variety of different fake 1TB microSD cards on its market and this endemic downside hasn’t been resolved but. Do you have to purchase a microSD card, be certain that it’s one in all these 14 manufacturers: Samsung, Kingston, SP/Silicon Energy, Teamgroup, Sandisk, WD, PNY, Lexar, Inland, Gigastone, Patriot, Transcend, Amazon Fundamentals and MicroCenter. We wouldn’t belief any others.
