14 DAY TRIAL // Since present-day camcorders and high-resolution cameras require ever more increasing storage capacities from SD memory cards, PQI has just announced they have developed a 64GB Class 10 SDXC flash storage device, joining the ranks of Kingston and other manufacturers that have already released 64GB SDXC solutions.
Developed in order to further increase the storage capacity of memory cards, the SDXC standard was unveiled in 2009 and can reach sizes as high as 2TB, although no manufacturer has managed to get anywhere near that figure yet.
Just as all the other SDXC products being released, PQI's model is governed by the SD 3.0 specification that can deliver up to 832 Mbit/s in data throughput.
However, the card most probably won't be able to reach such impressive transfer speeds, the Taiwanese company rating this as a Class 10 product, meaning that its minimum transfer rates should never go under 10MB/s.
In addition, files larger than 4GB are also supported as the card uses Microsoft's proprietary exFAT file system, its maximum file size being set at 64 ZiB (a lot more than the card's storage capacity).
According to PQI, a 64GB SDXC card is capable of storing a maximum of 26,208 pictures (based on 5 megapixel JPEG compression format), 352 hours of standard quality video (MPEG-4 video at 384 Kbps), or 640 minutes of 1920x1080 videos.
Until now PQI didn't have any SDXC memory cards in its lineup, all of the company's high-capacity solutions being based on the SDHC standard.
Unfortunately, no details regarding pricing have been released together with the memory card, these SDXC cards also missing from the company's online store.
However, PQI's products usually come with smaller price tags than those of the competition, so this could very well prove to be an affordable alternative for all the users that require a high capacity SDXC card that won't break the bank.