Samsung has announced the company's first family of memory cards based on the new JEDEC Universal Flash Storage (UFS) 1.0 Card Extension Standard. As well as rolling out new removable storage, this is also a glimpse of what is likely to come in future hardware too thanks to Samsung's advancing storage technology. UFS is expected to introduce significant performance enhancements when compared against its predecessor, microSD.
Set to be available in a variety of sizes, ranging from 32GB all the way up to 256GB, these new UFS cards are built to handle intensive 3D gaming and high-resolution movie playback, offering more than five times faster sequential read performance compared to SD cards of today. The UFS cards will be able to handle 530MB/s, which is similar to that of a PC SSD. The new cards will also offer a random read rate of 40,000 IOPS, more than 20 times that of microSD.
Perfect for mobile devices and camera equipment that require speed when reading and writing large files, it's safe to say these new cards (and the standard as a whole) will be blazing fast. We've already seen the tech implemented in embedded form when it comes to mobile hardware, but since these cards are not compatible with existing SD slots, we're going to have to hold out until companies offer a solution in upcoming smartphones. You can expect to see Samsung adding the capabilities to future hardware for consumers to take advantage of these new UFS cards.
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Samsung takes the Universal Flash Storage standard to the next level with some new memory cards
Not to be "that guy" or anything, but here I go anyway. Stop saying "memory" when talking about storage. RAM = Random Access Memory = Memory. Phones do not have expandable memory. They never have.
Yep
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I just bought a Samsung Pro 64GB card yesterday. Granted, these new cards will probably be much more expensive, but I'll want one of these now.
Doesn't matter. None of the existing phones suport it yet. We might not see this even in S8/Note 8 next year.
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256GB -- YES!
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MicroSD's are the mechanical hard drives of the phone world.
Not really
Hard drives are the bottleneck in speed on pcs
sd cards are the bottleneck in speed in phones.
sd cards have very similar speeds as mech hds
ufs cards have very similar speeds as ssds.
Cost structure is similar.
AC always has people downvoting and hating daily because they can hide behind it. Not saying that it is you that downvoted.
It's not the SD Card that's the speed bottleneck it's the interface that most phones have for them. SD cards would run plenty fast in your phone if it was interfaced with a USB 3.0 connection.. So I would say SD cards are like SSDs running on a SATA 1 or IDE interface, whereas UFS is like running a m.2 drive on pcie. Not an exactly analogy but close enough.
So do these work in current sd slots ?
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No. The design of the cards itself is slightly different with an extra "flair" piece on the top, and a different pin layout on the bottom compared to Micro-SD cards. Even without the physical differences, the Micro-SD slots inside current phones would need a specific UFS controller, which none of them have because the spec just came out a few months ago.
TL/DR: no, you'll need a new phone that specifically supports these cards.
Also, I vote we just refer to these as Micro-UFS cards.
OK thanks
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But but,wasn't it just last year everyone was saying how SD cards are "Old Technology" and dead and get with the future which was the cloud.
Keep in mind that Samsung didn't make any mention of smartphones in their press release. Their target seems to be "high-resolution mobile shooting devices such as DSLRs, 3D VR cameras, action cams and drones." You'll still see plenty of people pushing the cloud for smartphones.
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The higher speeds solves on of the biggest problems with using Micro-SD cards, especially if you're going to use it as adoptable storage
Memory cards are dead.
/s
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Totally, I wonder where are the people that said about 1year ago "SD cards are useless, internal storage is bbesst, you are stoopid for liking external storage"
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Not as long as manufacturers keep selling 32G phones, and charge $100 for an extra $10 worth of built-in memory.
A phone with 32GB's of Memory? That sounds more like a server if you ask me.
What is this memory card you speak of? We're talking about storage here amirite
Oh, your "that guy". Amirite
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Apparently not!
Maybe in the S8???? Or S9...
Mmmmmmmm, dat speed
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So insanely fast but no supported devices? Wonder how long it takes for most devices to support these, I'd like this storage in a windows tablet more than android.
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Adoption of this new standard will be slow since this standard isn't backward compatible.
If that's true then that's kinda bad... we know how slow people are to adapt. Look at how awfully slow the USB Type-C is "replacing" current Type-A...
"I'd like this storage in a Chromebook 2-in-1 that runs Android apps and also Ubuntu via Crouton more than Windows"
There. Fixed it for you. (Don't hate me!) :-)
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Will they work on the note 7?
How soon can we get them?
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No. "but since these cards are not compatible with existing SD slots, we're going to have to hold out until companies offer a solution in upcoming smartphones"
That is, unless Samsung future-proofs the Note 7 by creating a slot for these. It is far more likely that they will begin to accommodate these in 2017.
Holy crapola batman!!
These will be my next mobile storage cards. Even if I have to sell the kids!!
Ludicrous speed! Spaceballs all the way!