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Samsung Develops the First 1TB Storage Chips For Phones (engadget.com)
Samsung has started mass producing what it says is the industry's first one terabyte embedded Universal Flash Storage (eUFS) technology for smartphones. "It will give the company's mobile devices PC-like storage without the need for large-capacity microSD cards," Engadget reports. "It'll be incredibly useful if you use your phone to take tons of photos and HD videos -- Samsung says it's enough to store 260 10-minute videos in 4K UHD." From the report: "The 1TB eUFS is expected to play a critical role in bringing a more notebook-like user experience to the next generation of mobile devices," said Cheol Choi, EVP of Memory Sales & Marketing at Samsung Electronics. As ZDNet notes, Samsung's upcoming flagship devices, such as the S10, will most likely come with a 1TB option thanks to its new eUFS technology. After all, Samsung started mass producing its 512GB storage technology back in December 2017 and then debuted it with its new phones early on in the following year.
In addition to offering massive storage, the new eUFS was also designed to be faster than typical SSDs, microSDs and previous revisions of the technology. It has a 1,000-megabyte-per-second sequential read speed, twice that of the usual SSD and faster than its 512GB predecessor. Despite all those, Samsung says it'll come in the same package size as its 512GB flash memory, so it won't have to make its big phones even bigger.
In addition to offering massive storage, the new eUFS was also designed to be faster than typical SSDs, microSDs and previous revisions of the technology. It has a 1,000-megabyte-per-second sequential read speed, twice that of the usual SSD and faster than its 512GB predecessor. Despite all those, Samsung says it'll come in the same package size as its 512GB flash memory, so it won't have to make its big phones even bigger.
That sure is a lot of porn
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It looks like Samsung claims 10% efficiency over eMMC too. Anybody know of any drawbacks to eUFS (other than price, of course)?
No mention in the press release if this is QLC (quad-level cell) or TLC. It's said that next-gen v-nand tech is responsible for doubling the density, although they generally increase the number of layers by 30% or so each generation, and the chip size is the same. Could be that the 16 layers is double the number their 512GB chip used, although 16 has been the upper limit for years.
QLC would actually be fine for most smartphone users, who only use a tiny portion of the storage anyway, and wouldn't even get close to the ~1,000 rewrite limit (1 petabyte of writes, here). That'll help bring NAND prices down for the enthusiasts who could utilize the higher speed/endurance of TLC.
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"The 1TB eUFS is expected to play a critical role in bringing a more notebook-like user experience to the next generation of mobile devices,"
Raise your hand if you regularly use a computer/laptop with far less than 1TB of hard disc/SSD capacity.
Even relatively cheap smartphones have had plenty of storage, RAM, and processing power to deliver a compelling desktop experience for years. The problem is not a lack of storage space, it's a lack of a desktop-oriented operating system. A tiny screen and horribly crude default I/O devices don't help either, but bluetooth peripherals and/or a USB-C dock can (potentially) solve that nicely
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That is no whore. That is a woman.
It's not the capacity or the speed I care about. I want the ability to move the card between devices, or repurpose it for other uses. Tying it to a device where every other component (such as the battery) is locked out is not what I care for. MicroSD for me!
Hopefully this will also lead to more affordable solid state storage solutions for laptops too.
I could also hope this will feed into lower prices for Nintendo Switch cartridges, but the type of storage probably isnâ(TM)t adapted for that?
Jumpstart the tartan drive.
Now people will be encouraged and enabled to keep everything on their phones, so it'll be one-stop-shopping for all the three-letter government agencies when they decide to sift your life. I'd encourage everyone to put as much scat porn on their phones as possible against future possibility of this.
I read both of the articles, but neither one mentioned the only thing I'm interested in: how much will this 1TB chip cost?
Cards with 400GB to 500GB of storage are anywhere from $130 up to $250 give or take, so how much is a 1TB card going to cost?
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
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Balderdash!
My SSD has a sequential read speed of 3.2 GB/sec. It writes slightly slower, but not by much.
Why not just put "2,600 minutes of video"? Or is that too big a number for Americans to cope with? WTF?
640K ought to be enough for anybody
If Samsung's phones were not hot enough, after this they will be nothing short of explosive. Not for nothing is Samsung a company on fire. I bet we are all burning with anticipation.
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For those who use their phones as a tiny computer, this is a godsend. Even with carrying around a small bluetooth keyboard and mouse, it's still much less of a hassle than carrying a laptop, plus those things can be stowed when I don't need them.
Now if there are more Android work apps that can match up to their desktop counterparts, in terms of function, I'd be in heaven.