News & Reviews:   storage

In just within two years, Samsung has once again made a breakthrough in developing another new Universal Flash Storage (UFS). You will be seeing more UFS 4.0 solutions in future devices and it has just received the JEDEC Board of Director's approval.

Starting from 1 June 2021, Google will no longer be offering free unlimited storage for photos that are uploaded onto Google Photos using the “High quality” setting. With that being said, you might want to consider subscribing to Google One which lets provides you with up to 2TB of additional storage space starting from as low as RM8.49 a month.

As the years go by, file storage requirements increase. While the average consumer is probably never going to need more than a few terabytes, content creators would appreciate having large storage devices. In that sense, the 24TB HDD that Seagate could launch next year is huge.

After releasing their large 4TB 860 QVO SSD in 2018, Samsung is now back with the 870 QVO SDD by having its storage capacity doubled up. The 870 QVO offers consumers with options that go up to 8TB of storage. Nowadays, most consumers would go for SSD for faster speed and better performance. Therefore, an SSD with even larger capacity is going to suit some of our massive needs.

With the increase in resolution of videos and the proliferation of IoT networks, there's an urgent need for data storage devices with greater capacities. However, the rate at which current storage technologies are growing may not be enough. To that end, companies like Microsoft, Seagate, and Western Digital are looking into optical data storage with glass as a medium.

Based on a statement by gizmochina, it seems that Xiaomi has recently filed a patent which allows them to develop a card that has both SIM and MicroSD card functionality. This card could allow smartphone manufacturers to design a much smaller slot to accommodate the new SIM + MicroSD card design, which is much more space-efficient.

As the latest Android now supports Adoptable storage – external storage that can extend the size of the internal storage – and even some integration SD cards into the phone itself – the Secure Digital Association, the body that governs the SD Card standard, has announced a new specification called SD 5.1 that introduces the Application Performance Class.

When was the last time you complained that your SD card is full? Well you may never need to complain anymore soon as Western Digital’s Sandisk just shared a prototype unit of their largest SD card to date – a SDXC 1TB (Terabyte).

If you need more space for your stuff in your smartphone, the only way to expand it is with a microSD card. Sandisk has just introduced a beast of a microSDXD card that may catch your eye, as it has 256GB in something as small as your fingernail.