Recently samsung announced the world's First UFS memory card with five times faster data transfer speed as compared to the ordinarily used miroSD cards.
Samsung Introduces The World’s First UFS Memory Cards To Kill MicroSD Cards
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Samsung Electronics, the world leader in advanced memory technology, today unveiled the industry’s first removable memory cards based on the JEDEC Universal Flash Storage (UFS) 1.0 Card Extension Standard*, for use in high-resolution mobile shooting devices such as DSLRs, 3D VR cameras, action cams and drones. Coming in a wide range of storage capacities including 256, 128, 64 and 32 gigabyte (GB), Samsung’s UFS cards are expected to bring a significant performance boost to the external memory storage market, allowing much more satisfying multimedia experiences.
For comparison purposes, the microSD cards with the UHS-1 standard can normally reach the speed of only 95 MB/s. But, the biggest advantage of the UFS may be the amount of input and output operations per second (IOPS): While the UFS reaches up to 40,000 IOPS in random read, whereas a good microSD card usually reaches not more than 1,800 IOPS.
As the idea of the Korean technology giant Samsung, behind its UFS Memory Cards is, now users can easily use this UFS memory cards in high-end cameras to photograph high-quality pictures and to film or record 360-degree videos in high-resolution, such as virtual reality 3D cameras, drones, and DSLRs. With the 170 MB/s of constant write speed, a video in Full HD (like the size of 5 GB) would take only 30 seconds to be recorded on the memory card.
To achieve the highest performance and most power-efficient data transport, the UFS card supports multiple commands with command queuing features and enables simultaneous reading and writing through the use of separately dedicated paths, doubling throughput.
As the leading memory storage provider, Samsung has been aggressive in preparing UFS solutions for the marketplace, while contributing to JEDEC standardization of the Universal Flash Storage 2.0 specification in September 2013 and the Universal Flash Storage (UFS) 1.0 Card Extension standard in March 2016. Following its introduction of the industry-first 128GB embedded UFS chip in January 2015, the company successfully launched a 256GB embedded UFS memory for high-end mobile devices in February of this year. As of earlier this month, Samsung also completed the Universal Flash Storage Association** (UFSA)’s certification program that evaluates electrical and functional specifications for compatibility of a UFS card, and Samsung’s new UFS card products were approved as UFSA-certified UFS cards with the right to use the official UFS logo for the first time in the industry.
The senior Vice President of Memory Product Planning & Application Engineering at Samsung, Jung-bae Lee said that “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”. However, the UFS memory cards will allow both reading and writing of data simultaneously, which doubles the bandwidth capacity.
The designs of the cards have been patented by Korean technology giant Samsung, but will be licensed to allow other manufacturers to develop the compatible products without paying royalties. Of course, currently there is no smartphone is for sale which supports the new standard UFS Memory Cards, but, it would be no surprise if a UFS slot came to a future Galaxy Note 7 or Galaxy S8. Moreover, the new Samsung UFS memory cards will be available in capacities of 32, 64, 128 and 256 GB. But, prices were still not disclosed. Obviously, yes, you can not expect any discount.
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