Gizmag reports that Samsung is expected to be the first company to offer for sale a new type of memory card, Universal Flash Storage. The new cards, which follow a JEDEC standard, have the same size and shape as microSD cards but are electrically incompatible with them.
Samsung claims a "sequential read speed of 530 megabytes per second (MB/s)" and, for the 256 GB card (the largest capacity), a "170 MB/s sequential write speed" and "35,000 random IOPS." Gizmag likened the speeds to those obtainable with SSDs. Cards with capacities as small as 32 GB will be offered.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday July 08 2016, @02:33AM
I can't imagine 530 MB/s matters too much for phone use other than transferring video or something. But the IOPS look great (or at least better than anything phones have had, I'm aware of the 100k-1m IOPS SSDs).
Thanks Gizmag!
[SIG] 10/28/2017: Soylent Upgrade v14 [soylentnews.org]
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 08 2016, @04:50AM
Nice option to plug high speed storage into a port instead of tearing apart your laptop to get at the insides. So convenient, I wouldn't surprise me if Apple decides to block out non-Apple cards of this kind so they can gouge their users some more.
(Score: 2) by WillR on Friday July 08 2016, @02:28PM
(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday July 08 2016, @02:45PM
Are you telling me 90 MB/s is not enough for 4K or even 8K? I'm not so sure:
Secure Digital 5.0 Standard: Memory Cards Intended for 8K and Virtual Reality Recording [soylentnews.org]
I could definitely see 360° video needing a better speed class than 90 MB/s. Some setups might use 6 or more 8K cameras. Slurp all that footage into an SD card, and you'll want it to be more like an SSD.
[SIG] 10/28/2017: Soylent Upgrade v14 [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 3, Interesting) by WillR on Friday July 08 2016, @03:25PM