Lexar is releasing an SD card that's faster than a SATA SSD

[Marzipan]

up to 1700MB / s read and up to 1000MB / s write.

Lexar rolls out the world’s first stainless steel SD cards to join its Armor storage family

In addition to being resistant to bending they are IP68 certified.

www.tomshardware.com

 

[Izerous]

I'm curious as to the use case on something like that. The steam decks cap out at 100MB/s so these would be ridiculous there, really high end cameras like RED usually have their own memory cards... I guess this targets professional level but not corporate level video and photography?