Nintendo has a job opening for an Electro-Mechanical Engineer. One of the requirements of that job is that the engineer has “experience with high speed signaling and power delivery on PCB designs that contain elements such as PCIE, DDR4, MIPI, [and] SD/SD Express.” This has led to speculation that the Switch 2 will support Samsung SD Express microSD cards.
What does this mean for you? Simply, faster speeds.
SD Express is an upcoming standard line of microSD cards made by Samsung. The new standard would support faster transfer speeds roughly 8x the speed of current microSD cards.
How does Samsung SD Express compare to the current microSD standard?
Currently, microSD cards have an average transfer speed of around 60 MB per second. The highest presently available, a 1.5 TB SanDisk SDXC card, can reach up to 150 MB/s.
Samsung claims the new SD Express cards can reach transfer speeds of up to 800 MB/s. That’s just under 8x the speed! This would certainly be useful for faster loading times.
What do you make of all this? Certainly, faster loading times are a good thing, no?
(Thanks, gameranx).