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The current flagship of Kioxia's Exceria Plus range of microSD cards comes with a huge 1TB (921.6GB usable) capacity. The LMPL1M001TG2 heads a five-card microSDXC line-up; 64GB, 128GB, 256GB and 512GB, with a 32GB microSDHC card completing the product line. Kioxia's Exceria Plus range uses BiCS 3D flash memory and supports SDXC I, V30, U3, class10 and A1.
Kioxia rates the 1TB card's performance as up to 100MB/s for reads and up to 85MB/s for writes. Incidentally, the 256GB and 512GB cards have the same speed ratings, the 128GB and 64GB cards have the same read speed rating but with writes quoted as up to 65MB/s and the 32GB card is rated as up to 98MB/s and 65MB/s for reads and writes respectively.
When testing the card the best read/write figures we got from it came when using CrystalDiskMark 8 with a read result of 98.57MB/s with writes at 87MB/s. When transferring real-life data we got an average read figure of 96MB/s for the nine transfers with five of them at 99MB/s. Writes averaged 74MB/s, the fastest at 88MB/s, and the slowest at 51MB/s.
Just in case you wondering just what you can do with this much storage on a microSD card, Kioxia has a couple of charts on their website to show what the drive can store. For instance, it can hold approx 650,840 5-Megapixel or 154,070 18-Megapixel photos, 5,990 minutes of FullHD or 1,258 minutes of 4K recording time – which is quite something when you realise the card is only 15.0 x 11.0 x 1.0 mm in size.
We found the 1TB Kioxia Exceria Plus card on Concept Direct for £252.66 (inc VAT) HERE.
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Pros
- Performance.
- Huge capacity.
- 5 year warranty.
Cons
- Pricey, very pricey.
KitGuru says: Aimed at sports and action cameras, as well as drones and Android devices, the flagship 1TB Exceria Plus card offers a huge amount of fast storage but it does come with an equally huge price tag.
