Capable of write speeds of 170mbps, read speeds up to 530mbps and storage up to 256 gigs, these cards should have a definite impact on photography.
That's really great. Now, what's a 'UFS storage card?'
The U must be ultra and the S must be storage. The F is not hard to deduce. ;)
wdross
Loc: Castle Rock, Colorado
SteveR wrote:
Capable of write speeds of 170mbps, read speeds up to 530mbps and storage up to 256 gigs, these cards should have a definite impact on photography.
What styles does it come in? SD? CF? Other?
Thanks for posting the link. If I had done so, you know where my post would have been sent.
Went to that Samsung site and the UFS card pictures show two jutting out tabs. Might these not fit in most cameras? Or are the cards like micro SD cards that fit in a SD adapter?
TriX
Loc: Raleigh, NC
John_F wrote:
Went to that Samsung site and the UFS card pictures show two jutting out tabs. Might these not fit in most cameras? Or are the cards like micro SD cards that fit in a SD adapter?
Not only is the form factor and contact layout different, but the electrical interface is a completely different standard, so at first glance, these Universal Flash Storage cards would appear to be useful only in new devices and readers designed to this interface standard.
SteveR wrote:
Capable of write speeds of 170mbps, read speeds up to 530mbps and storage up to 256 gigs, these cards should have a definite impact on photography.
Which means absolutely nothing if camera manufacturers do not elect to adopt the format. Remember MMS, Memory Sticks, XD, and a few others that were good cards, but lost to the sands of time because they became proprietary and no one else adopted the formats besides the designer.
SteveR wrote:
Capable of write speeds of 170mbps, read speeds up to 530mbps and storage up to 256 gigs, these cards should have a definite impact on photography.
Yes, I've seen several articles about them. Now the camera makers will have to catch up.
Camera manufacturers will provide slots for UFS's over time, just like they did for the SD cards. Canon 1DS Mark II already has the slot for this new memory card, along with an SD slot. When you have a camera that can shoot 12 pics/second, you need an ultra fast memory card.
John_F wrote:
Went to that Samsung site and the UFS card pictures show two jutting out tabs. Might these not fit in most cameras? Or are the cards like micro SD cards that fit in a SD adapter?
I believe the pictured memory units are MICRO memory units. They slip into a holder and take the form of standard SD cards.
What is the advantage over CFast 2.0 cards? CFast cards can read 525 MB/s and write 445 MB/s. Cameras have to "catch up" to the memory cards' capabilities; only the new top end professional grade cameras can write at anywhere near those speeds.
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