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 FatPhil on Friday July 08 2016, @06:20AM
What could possibly go wrong? I hope that either putting old card in new socket or new card in old socket causes at least one side of the connection to get fried, that way a nice juicy class action will ensue!
(Disclaimer: once worked for Samsung, parted on less than perfect terms, but I would have made this post no matter what company it was.)
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