Samsung unveils superfast 256GB UFS

[THE INVESTOR] Samsung Electronics, the world’s largest chipmaker, on July 7 unveiled the industry’s first 256GB Universal Flash Storage, or UFS Card, with a reading speed five times that of a conventional MicroSD Card.

The card has the highest capacity in the market for an external memory card and boasts a reading speed of 530 MBps, equivalent to that of a 2.5-inch solid-state drive, or SSD, the company said. 

The latest card can read a full HD video (5GB) in 10 seconds. It will also be useful for recording on virtual reality cameras, action cams, DSLR and drones.

The writing speed is 170MBps, two times that of conventional MicroSD Cards, allowing a DSLR camera to save 24 pictures (about 1,120MB) in six seconds.

By Lee Ji-yoon (jylee@heraldcorp.com)