Lexar Ships the World’s First 1 TB MicroSD Express Card for Use With Nintendo Switch 2

Lexar, a leading global brand of flash memory solutions, is excited to ship of the world’s first 1 TB microSD Express card. Built on the new SD card standard that combines PCI Express 3.0 and NVMe 1.3 interfaces, the PLAY PRO microSDXC Express Card delivers substantially improved performance, perfect for handheld gaming devices.

With up to 900 MB/s read and 600 MB/s write, the PLAY PRO microSDXC Express Card offers the fastest speeds in the microSD Express card format and gives gamers an epic performance power-up that delivers faster game loads and accelerated downloads. With capacity up to 1 TB, it also offers space for many large AAA games. It is backwards-compatible with UHS-I and UHS-II host devices (at UHS-I speeds), but future-proofed for tomorrow’s cutting-edge handheld gaming systems and other upcoming devices that will leverage this next-gen technology.

The PLAY PRO microSDXC Express Card also comes with a limited lifetime warranty and lifetime access to the Lexar Recovery Tool, which customers can use to restore accidentally deleted or formatted files.

“The new microSD Express standard offers us a way to deliver a memory card with incomparable performance in that form factor,” said Joey Lopez, Director of Brand Marketing. “We’re excited to create a card for our customers that leverages the benefits of this new standard and prepares gamers for the next generation of handheld gaming.”

The Lexar PLAY PRO microSDXC Express Card is available in 1 TB for an MSRP of $199.99, 512 GB for an MSRP of $99.99, and 256 GB for an MSRP of $49.99.