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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: 2) by Bot on Thursday January 31 2019, @11:07AM (1 child)
it is anathema to talk about personal external storage nowadays, but this tech, or even a previous gen one with much less density, in a PROPER drive size, would be nice to have.
A full size sd card is already too small, easy to lose it or vacuuming it up without noticing. If you lose 32 gigabytes it is already a tragedy, what about 1 tb?
Maybe a full size sd card which can withstand some pressure, and so can be put together with coinage in the wallet (what? you only pay electronic? go away friends of the big brother).
A microsd is a joke meant for smartphones, I snapped one in half just by trying to get it out from the packaging (btw, it was a samsung. While your 20000 euro car battery cover plastic breaks just by looking at it wrong, the packaging of a 20 euro sd card is likely to withstand incoming bullets).
The pendrive, ok it begins to make sense. A pity the usb connector is so flimsy, bump into the drive and it disconnects, if you are using it as OS boot it is reboot time.
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(Score: 3, Touché) by takyon on Thursday January 31 2019, @02:52PM
I have never snapped a microSD in half. Maybe you should invest in some soft robotics. If the packaging is a problem, use a pair of scissorhands.
You should not be losing them so easily either. Keep it in a storage case, SD/microSD adapter, or inside the device that is using it.
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