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Samsung Electronics, the world leader in advanced memory technology, today announced that it has begun mass producing the industry's first one-terabyte (TB) embedded Universal Flash Storage (eUFS) 2.1, for use in next-generation mobile applications. Just four years after introducing the first UFS solution, the 128-gigabyte (GB) eUFS, Samsung has passed the much-anticipated terabyte threshold in smartphone storage. Smartphone enthusiasts will soon be able to enjoy storage capacity comparable to a premium notebook PC, without having to pair their phones with additional memory cards.
[...] Within the same package size (11.5mm x 13.0mm), the 1TB eUFS solution doubles the capacity of the previous 512GB version by combining 16 stacked layers of Samsung's most advanced 512-gigabit (Gb) V-NAND flash memory and a newly developed proprietary controller.
It has been speculated that the 1 TB chips are destined for the Samsung Galaxy S10.
The UFS package is smaller than a microSD card (which is 15.0mm × 11.0mm × 1.0mm), so 1 TB microSD cards could be produced soon. The current record is 512 GB.
Previously: Samsung 256 GB UFS 2.0 Phone Storage is Faster than some SATA SSDs
Samsung to Offer New Type of Flash Memory Card
Samsung Announces 512 GB NAND Chips for Smartphones
(Score: 5, Informative) by takyon on Thursday January 31 2019, @06:47AM (4 children)
https://www.tidbitsfortechs.com/2013/09/never-underestimate-the-bandwidth-of-a-station-wagon-filled-with-backup-tapes/ [tidbitsfortechs.com]
I'll assume a vehicle has 75 cubic feet of usable space.
I think the eUFS package is 1 mm thick, same as microSD. So that's a volume of 149.5 mm3 (they are smaller than microSD).
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=75+cubic+feet+%2F+149.5+cubic+millimeters [wolframalpha.com]
You get 14,206,000 of the things. Each one is a terabyte, so that's 14.206 exabytes.
Bandwidth depends on your trip distance and the vehicle's average speed.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by krishnoid on Thursday January 31 2019, @07:23AM (3 children)
It's the I/O at the trip endpoints that'll kill ya, though.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by zocalo on Thursday January 31 2019, @10:09AM
UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!
(Score: 3, Funny) by Bot on Thursday January 31 2019, @10:54AM (1 child)
- hello citizen
- what
- may i see your driver license and the vehicle registration
- sure thing, officer
- what are you carrying
- new generation storage cards, each one of it carries one terabyte of data, cool huh
- are those empty
- uh, no
- oh so i suppose there is no pirate mp3 or movies or porn or stolen smartphone pics among all that data, huh
- n-no, sir, i am not sure but...
- well let's check em out
- sure, take a couple at random and
- every one of them
and they all lived happily ever after
Account abandoned.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Thursday January 31 2019, @05:46PM
"You will stay in jail until you show us the one which contains child porn. We have enough circumstantial hearsay to hold you indefinitely without trial."