Samsung’s upcoming microSD card will provide a dramatic pace enhance. The corporate’s 256GB SD Specific microSD — Samsung’s first SD Specific card — can learn information at as much as 800 MB/s, considerably sooner than the microSDs you should buy right this moment. Nevertheless, we don’t but know the way a lot it should value, and the cardboard gained’t be accessible till later this yr.
The 256GB SD Specific microSD can have (theoretical) sequential learn speeds of as much as 800 MB/s, which is over 2.5 instances as quick because the learn speeds in UHS-II microSD playing cards and 1.4 instances sooner than SATA SSDs. So, at the least in principle, Samsung’s new card ought to be noticeably sooner than the most cost effective solid-state drives.
Samsung added warmth administration capabilities to assist hold temperatures in verify. “To make sure secure efficiency and reliability for the small type issue, Dynamic Thermal Guard (DTG) know-how maintains the optimum temperature for the SD Specific microSD card, even throughout lengthy utilization classes,” the corporate wrote in a press launch saying the brand new card.
Samsung (maybe unsurprisingly) is shoehorning the almighty “AI” buzzword into the cardboard’s zippier speeds. “With our two new microSD playing cards, Samsung has supplied efficient options to deal with the rising calls for of cellular computing and on-device AI,” Samsung VP Hangu Sohn wrote.
The corporate’s Galaxy S24 collection goes large on AI, however Samsung hasn’t included a microSD slot in its flagship telephones for the final 4 generations. (Nor has many of the remainder of the smartphone taking part in discipline.) So, whereas future AI-powered units may benefit from the additional speeds, Samsung’s present batch of high-end telephones aren’t on that checklist. As well as, though SD Specific is backward appropriate, not many units (but) assist SD Specific, which requires an additional row of pins on the host machine. In different phrases, the cardboard’s full potential gained’t be realized till we’ve new gear to assist it.
Though unrelated to the speedy SD Specific card, Samsung additionally unveiled a brand new 1TB microSD with UHS-1 speeds. “Samsung’s new 1TB microSD card stacks eight layers of the corporate’s eighth technology 1-terabit (Tb) V-NAND inside a microSD type issue, realizing the high-capacity bundle that was attainable solely in SSDs,” the corporate wrote. The 1TB card contains safety in opposition to water, excessive temperatures, drops, X-rays and magnets.
Samsung’s zippy 256GB SD Specific microSD card will launch “later this yr,” whereas the 1TB UHS-1 microSD arrives within the third quarter of 2024. The corporate hasn’t stated how a lot both will value.
