Samsung and SanDisk are looking to one-up each other when it comes to expandable memory for smartphones and any other device that supports a microSD card. SanDisk made a 200GB card last year that is quite affordable, and then Samsung came up with a 256GB model . A few weeks ago, SanDisk matched Samsung’s 256GB card with two new microSD options of its own , both more affordable than Samsung’s card. But Samsung stepped up its game and killed the microSD card completely.

The company’s latest memory offering is a UFS 2.0 storage solution that will work with any device that has microSDXC support, but it offers the same lightning-fast storage experience as the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S7. In fact, these new cards are just as fast as SSD drives.

Samsung last year switched to UFS 2.0 storage for high-end mobile devices , with the Galaxy S6 being the first to get these new ultra-fast memory chips. Short for Universal Flash Storage, UFS can significantly improve the smartphone experience, allowing faster access to the contents of a phone. Expanding UFS 2.0 support to swappable cards seems only logical for Samsung, and the move would let diehard Android fans to take advantage of Android’s adoptable storage feature – here’s how to enable it on the Galaxy S7 .

Oddly enough, Samsung does not mention Android devices in its press release , saying the new memory card has been designed for “mobile shooting devices such as DSLRs, 3D VR cameras, action cams and drones.” Samsung did not announce actual release dates or pricing details for the UFS 2.0 memory cards either, but it did reveal performance details.
The cards offer “more than five times faster sequential read performance compared to that of a typical microSD card,” as they’re able to read sequentially at 530 MB/s, which is on par with SSD sequential read speeds.

“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,” Samsung writes. “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.”

UFS cards will read a 5GB Full HD movie in 10 seconds, compared to 50 seconds for a microSD card that can do up to 95MB/s sequential reading.

As for write speeds, the 256GB UFS card reaches a top speed of 170MB/s, or almost twice the speeds the fastest microSD card can achieve. “To shoot 24 large/extra fine JPEG photographs (1,120 megabyte (MB)-equivalent) continuously with a high-end DSLR camera, the 256GB UFS card takes less than seven seconds, compared to a UHS-1 microSD card which typically takes about 32 seconds, at 35MB/s,” Samsung explains.

Well, SanDisk, the ball is in your court now.

Source: http://bgr.com/2016/07/07/fastest-256gb-microsd-card-samsung-ufs/

Not bad... Write speed is even great.

Is still memory card.

VocalWalls:
Not bad... Write speed is even great.

But if you search the names of Nigerian Looters on google while the memory card is active on save mode inside ur phone it will crash instantly

hope4nigeria:
Is still memory card.

Yeah

What will I do with 256GB?

extwoo:
What will I do with 256GB?

You can do anything with it, store anything sky's your limit,

50gb is too much for me not to talk of 256gb na wetn I want put inside sef

If u dnt ve relevant data to keep, u ll think 256GB is too big. You ll get there

256Gb ain't much when you have the best internet and not scared of you losing your smartphone to thieves. I guess tech ain't yet for us.

Technology!

ganaziah:



You can do anything with it, store anything sky's your limit,

Lie lie, 256Gb is the limit.

LarryBeryl:

Lie lie, 256Gb is the limit.

Lol....ok if you say so

worlexy:
Technology!

Yh!

walescounis:
256Gb ain't much when you have the best internet and not scared of you losing your smartphone to thieves. I guess tech ain't yet for us.

Yh bro, well said!

catlova2:
If u dnt ve relevant data to keep, u ll think 256GB is too big. You ll get there

True.

Y'all phone experts should just help me already

Just last month a bro of mine travelled to the US and bought a Samsung Galaxy S6 for me {Korean Version}…I've been using this phone for a while now until last week when i tried snapping a pic and i realised it wasn't capturing.. Why?

Gbam!

The memory is full i was like WTF
cox the internal storage of this phone is 32GB and all i can use is just 4GB....Told a friend and he told me to try wiping it maybe it could be calculation problem

I haven't done that and I'm very confused and now thing It's could be fake and all
Please help could it actually be fake or should i try wiping it?

anonym0us:
50gb is too much for me not to talk of 256gb na wetn I want put inside sef

pinshure of every body for ur villa

All Na Still Memory Card , na Just Diffrent Brand Names ... Una just wan use English confuse man !! Tchww

Frankaka8:
pinshure of every body for ur villa

plus the winsh wey go follow amfrom village come town

tempting

256GB IS TOO MUCH NOW... EVEN MY FUJITSU LAPTOP COMES WITH 250GB MEMORY...

BUT WAIT OOO...

THEY SAID IT IS AFFORDABLE... IFFA HEAR... NO BE SAMSUNG PRODUCT

anonym0us:
50gb is too much for me not to talk of 256gb na wetn I want put inside sef

I GUESS A DUDE DONT DOWNLOAD FILMS AND MOREOVER U AINT A PROGRAMMER

Is it me that will read that lengthy stuff.... .............who do summary for high school? Please do justice to the post in just two sentence

Still worthless if destiny can't be saved in it!!!

Its official, Nairaland af spoil.
How will this kind of thread reach fp
Is it dat they av started paying the mods or whats.
Nairaland Is losing its professionalism ans its not good...what does the title dat mod kept on the fp have to do with the actual thread
Bleep d mod that bans me

what are this guys up to? all in the name of technology.

the human brain is measured as low as 1 terabyte, or
approximately 1,000 gigabytes. and a tiny card is getting bigger than the human brain.

256gig dats still small, we need one terabytes. Games and movies etc to be stored there.

google drive sef doesnt exhaust data
abegii