Samsung's blazing fast UFS storage cards could replace micro-SD media
Samsung has announced super-fast removable data storage cards that could one day replace the slower micro-SD cards in devices.
The UFS card, based on the Universal Flash Storage 1.0 Card Extension standard, will come in capacities from 32GB to 256GB. The storage media could be used in cameras, drones, robots, virtual reality headsets and ultimately, even mobile devices.
There is a need for faster and high-capacity removable storage in electronics, and UFS media fits that requirement. UFS cards can blow away micro-SD media in performance by moving data in and out of the card much faster.
Users will be able to read 5GB of data -- or a full high-resolution movie file -- in 10 seconds from a UFS card, Samsung claimed. A UHS-1 micro-SD card would take 50 seconds to do the same.
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