INTRODUCTION

    SD cards may not be anywhere near to the newer CFexpress cards in terms of read & write performance, but they are far more widely used (UHS-I models in particular) and so you can find them in desktop music players/radios, cameras, camcorders, digital photo frames and more. Still even though read & write performance have always been the sole downside of SD cards (and UHS-I especially) manufacturers have pushed the limits and well, even though the UHS-I standard has a theoretical maximum transfer speed of up to 104MB/s (UHS-II up to 312MB/s) we've seen quite a few models achieve far higher numbers. Kingston recently released their CANVAS Go! Plus, SDG4 line of memory cards and today I'll be testing the 1TB SDXC model.

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    The CANVAS Go! Plus SDG4 1TB SDXC is also available in 64/128/256/512GB capacities (all these also apply for the microSD variant), follows the Class-10, UHS-I, U3 and V30 standards and according to Kingston can achieve speeds of up to 200MB/s in reads and 160MB/s in writes. Needless to say, your device needs to support such speeds (not just be UHS-I compatible) and the same goes for card readers. Also Kingston covers the entire CANVAS Go! Plus SDG4 with a limited lifetime warranty. So, let's see just how faster the latest CANVAS Go! Plus is compared not only to previous lines by Kingston by other brands as well.