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, @02:45PM
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.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by WillR on Friday July 08 2016, @03:25PM