MicroSD is dead- long live ultrafast UFS!

The days of the humble yet pretty darn mighty microSD might just be numbered, with the launch of Samsung's Universal Flash Storage.

MicroSD was introduced way back in 2005 and you'll likely be very familiar with these tiny cards that are popular for smartphones with expandable storage. They're the ones that seem to pop out all the time and are so small they easily get lost. You'll also find them used in drones, GoPro cameras and plenty more devices.

Samsung has just announced the next stage in personal storage with UFS. These new cards will offer up read speeds five times faster than the best class 10 microSDs and writing speeds at least twice as fast. What that means for you is less time waiting for your phone to access a file or write a photo.