Those rumors that Samsung's Galaxy S10 might come
with a 1TB
storage option may just be true.
Samsung announced on Tuesday that it's started to
mass-produce its 1TB Universal Flash Storage (eUFS), the type that'll be used
in smartphones of the future.
It took Samsung just four years to bring eUFS from
128GB to 1TB, the company said in a press release, while keeping it tiny enough
to use in a smartphone.
For an idea of just how much storage this is,
Samsung says it'll be enough to store 260 10-minute 4K videos. While that
actually doesn't sound that amazing, Samsung points out that your typical 64GB
smartphone can only store 13 such videos.
The new chip is not only more capacious than
previous versions, it's also faster. Transfer speeds on the 1TB eUFS 2.1 reach
1,000 MB/s, which is roughly twice the sequential read speed of your typical
2.5-inch SATA SSD, and 10 times the speed of a typical microSD card. Random
read speed has also improved by 38 percent (compared to the 512GB eUFS), making
it 500 times faster than a "high-performance microSD card".
For most users, 1TB storage on a smartphone might
seem like overkill. But for certain types of power-users it'll be very welcome.
If you're serious about video, for example, the ability to store more 4K videos
and handle them faster will be a life-saver. Be warned, though; 1TB smartphones
likely won't be cheap, at least until they become more commonplace.
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