The Lenovo Legion Y90 to employ an SSD and UFS 3.1 storage in RAID 0
The Lenovo Legion Y90 shapes up to be an exciting handset, especially after Lenovo's latest teaser on Weibo. It talks about an SSD and UFS 3.1 storage chips working in RAID 0 configuration. This is probably the industry's first.
We've seen SSDs on smartphones before, Apple's iPhones have been using them instead of UFS chips ever since the iPhone X. However, the heterogeneous design from Lenovo will allow using the standard UFS storage system alongside an SSD working in RAID 0 configuration.
For those unaware of RAID 0, it's a way to increase storage performance by using two drives working simultaneously and writing bits of the data to each of them.
It's been used in high-end PC and laptop builds for years now but this is probably the first time we will see this in a commercially available smartphone. Lenovo says that this improves the read and write speeds of the UFS 3.1 storage by 50%.
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- Sin
- 05 May 2022
- 3Hg
500gb ufs storage with a tiny 128gb SSD at least it has a SSD Lenovo is definitely on the right direction there smartphones are starting to get truely good just need bigger and faster storage and little more ram I really do hope a gaming ...
- Anonymous
- 02 Mar 2022
- JF2
It would mask nothing though. Raid 0 offers a slow down when pairing a slow disk with a faster one, because the lower common denominator (i.e. the slow disk) dictates how "fast" the faster one goes. In other words I can't believe ...
- JustSomeRandomGuy
- 01 Mar 2022
- EwD
ever heard of 4k 60 fps videos? they consumer tons of storage and don't go and tell me to use the cloud. I'm not gonna spend all my mobile data just to load gigs worth of video if I can watch it offline. data is hellishly expensive in other...
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