[Tech Class] UFS Storage Explained? Why Does it Matter?

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Hey HONOR Fans,

Smartphones have come a long way and although it may seem that no further improvements can be made to the current design of Smartphone but there is still lot going on to improve the overall usage experience and the performance of smartphones.

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Universal Flash Storage or UFS is one of those revolutions that might not have been noticed by most of the people, because most of us don’t think that improvement in storage is required at all and our focus is mostly on the size of storage instead the transfer speed of storage.

That’s why in this article I am going to explain to you what is UFS Storage, what are its different improvements and why you should consider it while purchasing a new Smartphone.

What is UFS Storage and Why it was introduced?

As I already mentioned that UFS stands for universal flash storage. UFS standard was introduced to replace the need of external SD or eMMC memory cards. UFS 1.0 standard was introduced in 2011 which allowed Bandwidth of 300 MB/s. However, Samsung was the first company that introduced UFS standard first in April 2015 in Samsung Galaxy S6 and it was shipped with UFS version 2.0. As you may know that a few years ago, people were heavily relying on SD cards and they always come handy as you can just simply remove them and insert into a new device. However, as the Camera and Video technology got better and Smartphones were able to take high resolution pictures and were able to film high resolution videos, the limitations of SD cards were clear and therefore most of the manufacturers stopped giving the option to increase the Smartphone storage using external SD cards.

This move was not welcomed by people at that time because it was really a convenient way for people to increase the storage capacity of their device with just the purchase of new SD card.

Therefore, the Smartphone manufacturers focused more on improving the UFS storage standards and to lower down the cost of offering more internal storage inside a Smartphone.

As a result, almost all of the Flagship Smartphone and some of high-end mid-range Smartphones don’t support external SD card option and now solely use UFS storage standards to store all the data.

Although primarily UFS storage was introduced due to the higher camera specifications of newly launched smartphones but you can argue that Digital Cameras don’t offer internal storage and they still rely on the external memory card, however they only work with highest class of external storage to properly store their data.

But still storing and accessing high quality images and videos was not the only motive behind UFS technology. It helps to run your Apps faster, lets you copy the data quickly from your Smartphone and last but definitely not the least, it’s needed in a World that is slowly but surely shifting to a 5G era.

So, imagine if you have a 1 Gbps internet connection and your phone storage doesn’t allow you to store data at that rate. What happens is that your phone does not support fast data storage option and therefore you can not take the benefit of having a high bandwidth internet.

The latest standard of UFS technology is UFS 3.1 and it offers a whooping sequential read speed of 2100 MB/s

Should you always look for UFS Supported devices while buying a new Smartphone?

Yes, without a doubt you should consider buying a device that has a UFS based storage and even if you can find a device with UFS 2.0, its still offers great speed but if you are planning to play and shoot 4K & 8K Videos, you should definitely buy a Smartphone with atleast UFS 3.0 standard internal storage.