INTRODUCTION

   Memory cards may have always been among the tiniest storage media around but they've also been among the slowest ones something which has improved a lot lately thanks to the introduction of new standards in performance. Yes, it has taken a long time and yes the most popular models right now are of the UHS-I standard but UHS-II cards are starting to appear in large numbers and with read & write numbers exceeding 300MB/s these are far from slow (as long as your device supports UHS-II cards that is). Of course, more recent standards like UHS-III (up to 624MB/s) and SD Express (up to 3938MB/s) offer much higher read & write speeds but as of now there are effectively almost no such products in the market. 2 years after my review of the Canvas line of SDXC memory cards by Kingston (review here) the new Canvas Plus SDXC line arrived and that's what I’ll be testing today.

   Kingston Technology Company, Inc. is the world’s largest independent manufacturer of memory products. Kingston designs, manufactures and distributes memory products for desktops, laptops, servers, printers, and Flash memory products for PDAs, mobile phones, digital cameras, and MP3 players. Through its global network of subsidiaries and affiliates, Kingston has manufacturing facilities in California, Taiwan, China and sales representatives in the United States, Europe, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Australia, India, Taiwan, China, and Latin America.

   Exactly like in the case of the Canvas Go and Select SDXC models the new Go Plus and Select Plus also follow the UHS-I standard but that's not the case with the Canvas React Plus model since it's based on the UHS-II standard. This means that even though the Canvas Select Plus SDXC card can reach read-write speeds of up to 100-85/MBs and the Go Plus can go even higher at 170-90MB/s the React Plus can go all the way up to 300-260MB/s (again, that is if your device supports UHS-II cards). This performance boost allows the Canvas React Plus to be used both for 4k and 8k recording whereas the Canvas Go and Select Plus models can be used for both Full HD 1080p and 4k recording (images and video). Also just like in the past Kingston covers the entire Canvas Plus line of SDXC memory cards with a limited lifetime warranty.