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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: 3, Insightful) by Absolutely.Geek on Thursday January 31 2019, @09:18PM (1 child)

    by Absolutely.Geek (5328) on Thursday January 31 2019, @09:18PM (#794714)

    With associated circuitry etc; I want to be seeing 100TB drives become available; obviously I would not be able to afford them but still.

    Nice to have 30TB laptop drives also; then I could have everything on my NAS (20TB total, 8 used) also on my laptop with lots of room to spare for future stuff.

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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Friday February 01 2019, @01:18AM

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Friday February 01 2019, @01:18AM (#794812) Journal

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_disk_drive_form_factors [wikipedia.org]

    https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=29869&page=1&cid=794432#commentwrap [soylentnews.org]

    (147 * 101.6 * 19) / 149.5 = 1898.119 * 1 TB = ~1.9 petabytes

    You will very quickly see a clear path towards massive SSD capacities. Take these UFS chips themselves. They use stacked 512 Gb NAND dies. But the industry state-of-the-art is at least 1.33 Tb, which is about 2.6x more capacity. Make no mistake, they can put 2 terabytes in a UFS or microSD card tomorrow.

    If you look at the top SSDs and NAND dies, you can see that we are not that far [soylentnews.org] from getting to 1,000 terabytes in some form factor. Probably not 3.5" though since it is a niche for SSDs.

    You can expect 1.33 Tb NAND dies to be superseded by 1.5 Tb and 2 Tb dies in the next couple of years. Within 5 years, maybe they will get to 4 Tb. 128 layers is already being talked about, and could bring the NAND die to 1.77 Tb. From there we would need to see a jump to 256 or 384 layers, and possibly a die shrink. A more dubious way to get there would be to increase the bits per cell to 8. This could screw up endurance, but it might ultimately have some side benefits since one cell would equal one byte. Here's some old talk about 8bpc [theregister.co.uk].

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