It’s incredible how much storage now fits into a fingernail-sized microSD memory card.
Last year, SanDisk crammed 200GB into a microSD card and now Samsung’s gone and made a 256GB microSD with the world’s fastest read and write speeds — even faster than SanDisk’s own new 256GB microSD card it touted as the world’s speediest only a week ago.
Samsung’s new UFS (Universal Flash Storage) microSD cards come in 32, 64, 128 and 256GB capacities.
Designed for high-resolution 3D gaming and high-resolution movies, the cards boast read speeds of 530 megabytes per second (MB/s), which is about five times faster than most microSD cards. The cards also have write speeds of 170MB/s. Read more…