{"id":97896,"date":"2016-07-07T07:36:11","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T05:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=97896"},"modified":"2016-07-07T07:37:30","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T05:37:30","slug":"samsungs-world-first-ufs-memory-cards-are-5-times-faster-than-microsd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/97896-samsungs-world-first-ufs-memory-cards-are-5-times-faster-than-microsd","title":{"rendered":"Samsung&#8217;s world-first UFS memory cards are 5 times faster than microSD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung has <a href=\"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/global\/samsung-introduces-worlds-first-universal-flash-storage-ufs-removable-memory-card-line-up-offering-up-to-256-gigabyte-gb-capacity\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>revealed<\/strong> <\/a>its new UFS memory cards, which are 5\u00a0times faster than regular microSD cards.<\/p>\n<p>The Universal Flash Storage memory cards are shaped similarly to a standard microSD card, although they will not be compatible with device that only support microSD.<\/p>\n<p>Samsung&#8217;s UFS memory cards will be available in a variety of capacities, including\u00a0<strong>256GB<\/strong>, <strong>128GB<\/strong>, <strong>64GB<\/strong> and <strong>32GB<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The memory cards are intended for use in high-intensity mobile storage environments, such as high-resolution video cameras and 3D VR devices.<\/p>\n<p>The 256GB UFS memory card will offer sequential read\u00a0speeds of up to <strong>530 MB\/s<\/strong>, five times faster than that of a typical microSD card.<\/p>\n<p>These read speeds rival that of solid state drives, and UFS cards will also offer sequential write speeds of up to <strong>170MB\/s<\/strong> &#8211; double that of typical microSD cards.<\/p>\n<p>Samsung&#8217;s UFS memory cards could see wide application across mobile devices, including high-end smartphones.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to This is how South African ISPs choose which suburbs get FTTH\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/96715-this-is-how-south-african-isps-choose-which-suburbs-get-ftth.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">This is how South African ISPs choose which suburbs get FTTH<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Why we are paying the same price for the same laptop hardware as 5 years ago\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/96863-why-we-are-paying-the-same-price-for-the-same-laptop-hardware-as-5-years-ago.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Why we are paying the same price for the same laptop hardware as 5 years ago<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to First Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 benchmarks leaked\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/97848-first-nvidia-geforce-gtx-1060-benchmarks-leaked.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">First Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 benchmarks leaked<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung has revealed its new UFS memory cards, which are 5 times faster than regular microSD cards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":97902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8585,7,2226],"tags":[20164,31,20162,19265,1121,20160,19539,1435,14975,2101],"class_list":["post-97896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","category-hardware","category-mobile","tag-256gb-ufs","tag-active","tag-cards","tag-fast","tag-memory","tag-microsd","tag-new","tag-samsung","tag-smartphones","tag-ssd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}