Samsung just moved a step forward from Micro SD CARD

We all have seen new technologies displace old dorminant ones, an example is Nokia being displaced by its competitors after years of dorminance. This displacement tide is reaching Micro SD cards (MEMORY CARD) has it is popularly called as Samsung just unveiled Universal Flash Storage cards "USF"  

Amazingly, the USF is the same size as regular MicroSD cards,Samsung said It provides more than five times faster sequential read performance compared to that of a typical microSD card, reading sequentially at 530 megabytes per second (MB/s) which is similar to the sequential read speed of the most widely used SATA SSDs. With this UFS card, consumers have the ability to read a 5GB, Full-HD movie in approximately 10 seconds, compared to a typical UHS-1 microSD card, which would take over 50 seconds with 95MB/s of sequential reading speed. Also, at a random read rate of 40,000 IOPS, the 256GB card delivers more than 20 times higher random read performance compared to a typical microSD, which offers approximately 1,800 IOPS.

The new flash storage cards are available in 32GB, 64GB, 128GB and 256GB and have been designed for use with high resolution cameras such as DSLRs, drones, 360 cameras, action cams and 3D virtual reality cameras.

“Our new 256GB UFS card will provide an ideal user experience for digitally-minded consumers and lead the industry in establishing the most competitive memory card solution,” said Jung-bae Lee, senior vice president, Memory Product Planning & Application Engineering, Samsung Electronics “By launching our new high-capacity, high-performance UFS card line-up, we are changing the growth paradigm of the memory card market to prioritize performance and user convenience above all.”

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It is further added that "USF": “significantly reduces multimedia data downloading time, photo thumbnail loading time and buffer clearing time in burst shooting mode, which, collectively, can be particularly beneficial to DSLR camera users.”

However, all this increased power and performance comes at a price.

Samsung also revealed that as of yet, there aren’t actually any devices that support the new UFS cards, and perhaps more importantly, they are not compatible with MicroSD.

With that being said, you can expect UFS cards to become the standard on Samsung smartphones in the future.

Prices and official launch dates have not yet been announced and while the UFS cards will offer a big improvement on removable storage, don’t throw your MicroSD cards away just yet!

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