SanDisk's New 512GB SD Card Can Cost You $800

SD cards are everywhere now, and you can get them on the cheap. But SanDisk is not interesting "on the cheap" with the announcement of some crazy, insanely high-capacity flash memory that is more expensive than the camera you put it in.

SanDisk has recently announced its new Extreme Pro SD Card which can hold all your 4K videos in its half a terabyte storage. This new card has read/write speed of around 95 MB/s. With a U3 speed rating, SanDisk says the new card will allow for "stutter-free" 4K video recording.

The new card is also resistant to extreme cold, water, shock, and X-ray allowing photographers to use these cards almost anywhere. Alongside its 512GB cards, SanDisk is also selling 256GB and 128GB cards in the Extreme PRO SDXC line.

The bad news is the new 512GB card is wickedly expensive with an MSRP of $800. That's to be expected, however, as storage companies typically market new products to pro types first where premium prices are the norm. Only recently, Seagate announced an 8TB hard drive that is also being sold at an unannounced premium to data centers that need to pack as much storage into as little space as possible.

Just like Seagate's 8TB monsters, Seagate's 512GB SD cards will inevitably come down to a more manageable price range.  

Via -  PC World