From AnandTech: Western Digital has introduced its new SanDisk Automotive and SanDisk Industrial memory cards for specialized applications. The new cards can work in extreme temperatures for prolonged amounts of time, integrate health status monitor capability, special data retention mechanisms, and some are compliant with the AEC-Q100 Grade 3 standard. In addition, the cards are substantially faster than their predecessors are, thus enabling Western Digital to offer them for emerging applications, such as surveying commercial drones and automotive dash cameras.
Western Digital’s new family of cards for specialized application consists of four lineups each offering slightly different features. The SanDisk Automotive devices are aimed at cars, drones and other vehicles, they come in SD form-factor in capacities from 8 to 64 GB and they are compliant with the AEC-Q100 Grade 3 requirements, and can operate in extreme temperatures between -40ºC and 85ºC for prolonged amounts of time. The SanDisk Industrial cards for “mainstream” industrial applications come in SD (8 – 64 GB) and microSD (8 – 128 GB) form-factors, are rated for up to 192 TBW (the manufacturer does not disclose which drives can survive 192 TB, but it is likely that it means the 64 GB and/or 128 GB versions) and are guaranteed to work for extended amounts of time in “mildly” extreme temperatures from -25ºC to 85ºC. For machines that are going to work at -40ºC, SanDisk offers the Industrial XI range. When it comes to performance, the cards feature a sequential read speed of up to 80 MB/s and a sequential write speed of 50 MB/s. This is a significant performance boost over previous-gen SD cards for automotive and industrial applications that had throughput of 20 MB/s.
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