Samsung is now mass-producing 1 TB microSD cards, sales will begin in Q3 '24

28 February 2024
The company is also sampling SD Express microSD with 256 GB capacity.

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Anonymous, 28 Feb 2024Sd cards , the sure way to loose your data.way to not lose data? cloud I assume ? .... yeah understandable but what if you live in an area with a poor internet connection like me now you can't tell me to upload a 1 GB file with 900kbps

    Sam N8 808 owner, 29 Feb 2024Totally correct. I've been using microSD's and S... moreYes, I totally agree with you.
    We don't have a problem with micro SD.
    But as GSMarena readers, we are considered the minority of consumers.
    The common consumer (that makes up the largest buying power) aren't as knowledgeable or care to spend time knowing about it.

      Tusl, 29 Feb 2024Thumbnails are usually cached, on the internal drive, or sy... moreI've been using smartphones from NOKIA 3230 (launched in 2004 when miniSD not micro SD were used, boy time has passed) and use DOS terminal to transfer the photos from on card to another (so not to mess up the Created date - taken date if in Exif won't change but some photo apps go by created date, DOS robocopy prevents this change of date)
      It's always fun to show people how things looked 20 years ago.
      The speed has gotten much better, but still nowhere near how internal storage has evolved.

      I'm currently using a U3 micro SD with the last Samsung flagship with micro SD, Note20 ultra.
      Even when cached, it will still sometimes take 3s to appear even when using a U3 microsd, when you scroll immediately from newest photo to photo 2+ years ago.

      If I'm not mistaken, the cache is sometimes regenrated when there's a major update for either OS, photo app, chat apps or email apps. When this happen, it's fine for me, as I understand it'll take longer to regenrated these thumbnails for micro SD pics. But most customers would prefer the near instantaneous thumbnail generated from internals storage

        Make super fast SD cards with 1tb space - remove the ability to use them with your own phones. Samsung in a nutshell

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          • Tusl
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          • 29 Feb 2024

          ReaLogic, 29 Feb 2024It's theoretical max speed. Not real speed. Microsd w... moreThumbnails are usually cached, on the internal drive, or system drive in windows. Im not quite sure how you ended up with 20yo photos on a microsd card, but again if it's a new phone, plugging in an usb drive would be faster and more flexible. Not saying it's a more comfortable, but i'm pretty sure this is NOT a use-case scenario for enough people for Samsung to give every phone with already enough storage an additional sd slot.

          Hypothetically as a potential flagship buyer i would not care if the sd slot is absent, simply because again it is possible to connect the phone to a _real_ storage and quickly transfer whatever i need. and you _will_ have to do it anyway if 512GB-1TB internal storage is not enough. Not even talking about Cloud, but it falls under the same category with faster and faster internet speeds essentially.

          The same reason 3.5" was gone once wireless headphones got good enough. It just became a useless gimmick.

            ReaLogic, 29 Feb 2024It's theoretical max speed. Not real speed. Microsd w... moreTotally correct.
            I've been using microSD's and SD's for the past 11 years, and I can attest that each line is correct and accurate. Samsung also has a downloadable PC software that can detect fake MicroSD's.

            But I might add, apart from thumbnails loading, I don't see any significant issue with microSD's. Even worse case scenarios like 1080p240 (slow motion) or 4K60fps video (both with 256kbps stereo audio) recording do great with microSD...

              With this move, most lowenders and midrangers will be able to beat flagships in stored memory..
              Ain't it awesome? The underdog making it big?

              And this express card should be great, but the question remains, will every microSD slot out there support its maximum read speed? and how do we know?
              Because, my old DSLR once had this problem, it performed better on older standard of cards than newer...

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                • Anonymous
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                • 29 Feb 2024

                Tusl, 29 Feb 2024You really think there are any tasks requiring "5800MB... moreas long as the 512gb or atleast 256gb storage for the phone is not the minimum then sd/external storage are not a Thing of a past yet.

                  Tusl, 29 Feb 2024You really think there are any tasks requiring "5800MB... moreIt's theoretical max speed. Not real speed.
                  Microsd write speed even on U1 cards can range anywhere from 10+MBps to 90MBps.
                  Even worse is customers that buy below speed 10 SD cards, that can't even handle recording HD recording.(video recorded is partially broken due to the slow microsd speed).

                  So what to say when customers don't even know how to choose the fastest card?

                  There's also a lot of fake flash out there. Just because windows shows a card is 256GB doesn't mean it really is. There's software like H2Wtest (gold standard) and fakeflashtest (quick) that test for genuine microsd, USB drive, SSD etc. when customers complain their file corrupted after a few months, they probably blame the phone company, not their own ignorance.

                  Images videos and docs on my internal drive loads and shows thumbnails a lot faster on my internal drive. Versus on my microsd. When you have over thousands of photos you've saved for almost 20 years, waiting for thumbnails to appear while scrolling through them to attach to someone on chat apps and email apps etc, is a pain.

                  I still use microsd as backup, but due to not many customers (GSMarena readers are in the minority) not knowing how to use microsd, and then complain about their phone performance, very unlikely to see SD cards coming back to flagships.

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                    • Anonymous
                    • sxr
                    • 29 Feb 2024

                    I dont know for other people but im really using microsd card/ external storage Specialy for large size videos and photos. i Hope samsung will bring back sd card to their phone again. im not paying for cloud since there are some place that has no internet in where i am living.

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                      • 29 Feb 2024

                      ReaLogic, 29 Feb 2024Using GSMarena search, just 2022 and newer models, over 500... moreYou really think there are any tasks requiring "5800MB/s"? There are hardly any even on the PC. 4K HDR Bluray _maximum_ bitrate is 16MB/s and you say 300MB/s will slow down watching photos and text? :weird:

                      But, i do agree microSD is likely a thing of the past, simply because for flagships, internal storage (512GB+) has grown large enough for basic needs, and the USB 3 spec became fast enough to offload excess data to an USB flash drive, essentially mimicking the microSD card functionality if there is a need. There are cheap 1000MB/s writing speed flash drives out there already, just saying.

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                        • Anonymous
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                        • 29 Feb 2024

                        What we want to show true power of SD cards is to have UHS-II standard, which is not yet popular than the UHS-I. Many phones don't have SD card slot. While others have, but stuck at UHS-I standards.

                        So not every phones could have UHS-II in the SD card slot which is a bummer, it did not evolve compared to UHS-I. As the result, we still got 90MB/s on every smartphones with UHS-I SD card slot mounted with UHS-II SD card.

                        Meanwhile, other devices such as camcorder, surveilance, and so will take advantage with UHS-II if such devices support it.

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                          • Anonymous
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                          • 29 Feb 2024

                          Think Samsung dug a pit for themselves here. Not even the galaxy s devices have expandable storage and yet they're making microsd cards (yes i get it's 2 seperate divisions, but it's still bac(warda beyond belief). Maybe next years flagships will finally reintroduce removable storage (micro sd pcie (there is a standard it's just more of a paper one than an existingone at this point).

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                            • xjH
                            • 29 Feb 2024

                            We want 1 terabytes speed on 1 tb floppy disks.
                            Long live floppy disk.

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                              • Anonymous
                              • XDp
                              • 29 Feb 2024

                              Unknown soldier, 29 Feb 2024bravo.....ohhhhhh sd cards manifacturing phones ....no ... moreTo be used on ...S series..lol...🤣😂🤣😂

                                Bebochekov, 28 Feb 2024I think companies should only make phones with 256gb or 128... moreUsing GSMarena search, just 2022 and newer models, over 500, 128gb phones have card slot. Over 200 256gb phones have card slot. Mostly non flagships.
                                Sdxc theoretical speed max out 300MBps. Even old EMMC has 400MBps. UFS 4 is almost 20x the SD card speed at 5800MBps.
                                I don't think SD cards will come back to flagship phones unless majority of consumers become more knowledgeable. They have to accept the fact that fetching any data from SD card (photo, documents, creating thumbnails etc) slows down the whole process. But since many customers go "iPhone is so smooth", you won't see SD cards making a comeback anytime soon in flagships (Sony still has them though).

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                                  • Anonymous
                                  • xhn
                                  • 29 Feb 2024

                                  Bebochekov, 28 Feb 2024I think companies should only make phones with 256gb or 128... moreNow, all phone companies is competing to create more expensive or even the most expensive phones. Look at Xiaomi, it has the most expensive one, beating Apple and Samsung.

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                                    • Lcg
                                    • 29 Feb 2024

                                    bravo.....ohhhhhh sd cards manifacturing

                                    phones ....no sd slots ..
                                    resume... not to be trusted

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                                      • AnonD-1137263
                                      • 39x
                                      • 29 Feb 2024

                                      why samsung making only V30 ??? Lexar and ProGrade and Delkin has V60 and V90 UHS II speeds... Samsung max UHS I

                                        Dometalican, 28 Feb 2024"why would you want to get an S24U with 1TB when you c... moreExactly. Another point I don't see brought up enough is that internet bandwidth is costly and capped. If you try to access all of your free Google drive space in a month, on many phone plans you literally can't. And even non mobile internet has fairly low caps, with high overage fees.

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