Samsung just killed micro SD card see what will replace it.

Samsung and SanDisk are looking to one-up each
other when it comes to expandable memory for
smartphones and any other device that supports
a microSD card. SanDisk made a 200GB card last
year that is quite affordable, and then Samsung
came up with a 256GB model.
A few weeks ago, SanDisk matched Samsung’s
256GB card with two new microSD options of its
own , both more affordable than Samsung’s card.
But Samsung stepped up its game and killed the
microSD card completely.
The company’s latest memory offering is a UFS
2.0 storage solution that will work with any
device that has microSDXC support, but it offers
the same lightning-fast storage experience as
the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S7. In fact, these new
cards are just as fast as SSD drives.
Samsung last year switched to UFS 2.0 storage
for high-end mobile devices , with the Galaxy S6
being the first to get these new ultra-fast
memory chips. Short for Universal Flash Storage,
UFS can significantly improve the smartphone
experience, allowing faster access to the
contents of a phone. Expanding UFS 2.0 support
to swappable cards seems only logical for
Samsung, and the move would let diehard
Android fans to take advantage of Android’s
adoptable storage feature – here’s how to
enable it on the Galaxy S7 .
Oddly enough, Samsung does not mention
Android devices in its press release , saying the
new memory card has been designed for “mobile
shooting devices such as DSLRs, 3D VR
cameras, action cams and drones.” Samsung did
not announce actual release dates or pricing
details for the UFS 2.0 memory cards either, but
it did reveal performance details.
The cards offer “more than five times faster
sequential read performance compared to that of
a typical microSD card,” as they’re able to read
sequentially at 530 MB/s, which is on par with
SSD sequential read speeds.
“With this UFS card, consumers have the ability
to read a 5GB, Full-HD movie in approximately 10
seconds, compared to a typical UHS-1 microSD
card, which would take over 50 seconds with
95MB/s of sequential reading speed,” Samsung
writes. “Also, at a random read rate of 40,000
IOPS, the 256GB card delivers more than 20
times higher random read performance compared
to a typical microSD, which offers approximately
1,800 IOPS.”
UFS cards will read a 5GB Full HD movie in 10
seconds, compared to 50 seconds for a microSD
card that can do up to 95MB/s sequential
reading.
As for write speeds, the 256GB UFS card
reaches a top speed of 170MB/s, or almost
twice the speeds the fastest microSD card can
achieve. “To shoot 24 large/extra fine JPEG
photographs (1,120 megabyte (MB)-equivalent)
continuously with a high-end DSLR camera, the
256GB UFS card takes less than seven seconds,
compared to a UHS-1 microSD card which
typically takes about 32 seconds, at 35MB/s,”
Samsung explains.