Lexar, a well-known brand in the memory market, has revealed the Lexar^® Professional 2000x SDHC™ /SDXC™ USH-II Memory Card GOLD Series in an impressive and super-practical 256GB capacity. The new card boasts read speeds of up to 300MB/s and has been developed for higher-end mirrorless, DSLR and cinema-quality video cameras. Read on for more. 

The new cards from Lexar can harness UHS-II tech that lets users easily manage high-speed sequential burst modes of RAW footage, also allowing for super-quick file transfers for a slick workflow and post-production. The new Lexar^® Professional 2000x SDXC UHS-II Card GOLD Series 256GB is great news for the growing number of shooters who demand arger storage capacities and promises the performance required to capture and securely store valuable data.

They’re water-proof, temperature-proof, shockproof, vibration-proof, and X-ray-proof, apparently, with the added versatility of being backwards compatible with UHS-I devices, performing up to the maximum thresholds of UHS-I speed capabilities.

Key Features

• High-speed – UHS-II technology for a read transfer speed up to 300MB/s
• High-quality images and extended lengths of Full-HD and cinema-quality 8K video
• Designed for durability
• Waterproof
• Backwards compatible with UHS-I devices
• High capacity of 256GB 
• Limited lifetime warranty

Joel Boquiren, General Manager of Lexar, said: “We are excited to announce the Lexar^® Professional 2000x SDHC™/SDXC™ UHS-II V90 Card in 256GB. The new larger capacity will dramatically help professional content creators capture more of what they love while maintaining the top performance known from our 2000x Series of Professional SD Cards.”

Pricing and availability

Lexar® Professional 2000x SDXC UHS-II Card GOLD Series 256GB is available now at a suggested retail price of £374.99. 

See more at Lexar’s website