Samsung has announced the introduction of the first Universal Flash Storage (UFS) memory card line-up, boasting capacities up to 256GB and speeds up to 530MB/sec.
Based on the JEDEC Solid State Technology Association (formerly the Joint Electron Devices Engineering Council) Universal Flash Storage 1.0 Card Extension Standard, Samsung's UFS cards are designed as next-generation replacements for the micro-SD format. According to Samsung's internal testing, its top-end 256GB UFS memory card offers 530MB/sec sequential read performance - some five times faster than 'a typical UHS-1 micro-SD card' - and offers 40,000 input output operations per second (IOPS), bringing performance in line with SATA-connected solid-state drives (SSDs).
'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,' crowed Jung-bae Lee, senior vice president for memory product planning and application engineering at Samsung Electronics, of the launch. 'By launching our new high-capacity, high-performance UFS card line-up, we are changing the growth paradigm of the memory card market to prioritise performance and user convenience above all.'
While 530MB/sec sequential read and 40,000 IOPS is impressive, the performance of Samsung's latest cards does drop below its larger SSD brethren for write tasks. At 170MB/sec sequential write performance, though, it's still comfortably higher than a micro-SD card. With performance down pat, all Samsung has left is to see the UFS card format adopted in consumer devices: while embedded UFS is seeing traction in the industry, micro-SD - and its higher-capacity and higher-performance updates, micro-SDHC and micro-SDXC - remains the majority solution by far.
Samsung has not announced availability or pricing for the new cards.
Based on the JEDEC Solid State Technology Association (formerly the Joint Electron Devices Engineering Council) Universal Flash Storage 1.0 Card Extension Standard, Samsung's UFS cards are designed as next-generation replacements for the micro-SD format. According to Samsung's internal testing, its top-end 256GB UFS memory card offers 530MB/sec sequential read performance - some five times faster than 'a typical UHS-1 micro-SD card' - and offers 40,000 input output operations per second (IOPS), bringing performance in line with SATA-connected solid-state drives (SSDs).
'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,' crowed Jung-bae Lee, senior vice president for memory product planning and application engineering at Samsung Electronics, of the launch. 'By launching our new high-capacity, high-performance UFS card line-up, we are changing the growth paradigm of the memory card market to prioritise performance and user convenience above all.'
While 530MB/sec sequential read and 40,000 IOPS is impressive, the performance of Samsung's latest cards does drop below its larger SSD brethren for write tasks. At 170MB/sec sequential write performance, though, it's still comfortably higher than a micro-SD card. With performance down pat, all Samsung has left is to see the UFS card format adopted in consumer devices: while embedded UFS is seeing traction in the industry, micro-SD - and its higher-capacity and higher-performance updates, micro-SDHC and micro-SDXC - remains the majority solution by far.
Samsung has not announced availability or pricing for the new cards.
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