Samsung's new 256GB microSD is 20x faster than any regular microSD

Samsung has unveiled a new 256GB microSD that beats SanDisk's new 256GB microSD card launched a week back and which the company claimed as the world’s fastest microSD card.

Samsung said that the card will come in the capacities of 32, 64, 128 and 256GB, but hasn't given any information on pricing or availability yet.

Along with the storage bump, the cards boast some crazy fast read and write times. Read speeds peak out around 530MB/s, which is five times faster than the speed of any high-end microSDs. The write speed is 170MB/s.

The 256GB SanDisk microSD card, on the other hand delivers read speeds of up to 100MB/s, and write speeds of up to 90MB/s.

The card is also the world’s first removable memory cards based on the JEDEC Universal Flash Storage (UFS) 1.0 Card Extension Standard, for use in high-resolution mobile shooting devices such as DSLRs, 3D VR cameras, action cams and drones.

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.

“By launching our new high-capacity, high-performance UFS card line-up, we are changing the growth paradigm of the memory card market to prioritize performance and user convenience above all,” said Jung-bae Lee, senior vice president, Memory Product Planning & Application Engineering, Samsung Electronics.