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posted by mrpg on Thursday January 31 2019, @05:47AM   Printer-friendly
from the more-space-for-selfies dept.

Samsung Breaks Terabyte Threshold for Smartphone Storage with Industry's First 1TB Embedded Universal Flash Storage

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


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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday January 31 2019, @06:56AM (2 children)

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Thursday January 31 2019, @06:56AM (#794434) Journal

    Bloatware does not grow proportionally with smartphone storage size. I would be surprised if there is much more than 10-20 GB used by default on these 1 TB phones.

    Samsung also sells this storage to other companies, so you can just get a phone from a different company.

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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by EEMac on Thursday January 31 2019, @02:22PM (1 child)

    by EEMac (6423) on Thursday January 31 2019, @02:22PM (#794525)

    It's wonderful and terrible that 20GB of bloat on a phone is now considered reasonable.

    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by bob_super on Thursday January 31 2019, @05:27PM

      by bob_super (1357) on Thursday January 31 2019, @05:27PM (#794604)

      Thank Microsoft for that.
      How much more useful functionality do people really get from the over-10GB Windows 10, compared to the 100MB Win98 ?