Samsung ups the microSD card game, its latest are 5x faster than what’s out there
Thursday, July 7, 2016 at 10:58PM 
MicroSD is getting a huge upgrade with these new cards from Samsung. The South Korean tech giant introduced new cards that have flash storage. It comes with 32GB, 64GB, 128GB, and 256GB capacities and uses the JEDEC Universal Flash Storage (UFS) 1.0 Card Extension Standard. The JEDEC standard promises that these cards will be five times faster than any other card out on the market. These have read speeds of 530 megabytes per second and write speeds of 170MBps. For comparison, the new SanDisk Extreme 256GB microSD card has a read rate of 100MBps and write speed of 90MBps.
One of the things that might hamper adoption of these new microSD cards is price. We’re not sure yet how much Samsung plans to price these as flash storage is just starting to become affordable. These new cards are being positioned for camera use so another thing is the JEDEC standard needs wider adoption. And that means the likes of Canon and Nikon need to get onboard.
Source: The Next Web