#UFS explained

[caption id="attachment_227540" align="alignnone" width="720"] Photo from Samsung[/caption] This is where UFS or Universal Flash Storage comes in. Unlike eMMC storage which uses a Parallel interface, UFS uses what's called an LVDS Serial Interface. While an eMMC storage can only read or write at any given time, UFS can perform both tasks simultaneously with its two lanes. In addition, UFS also has a Command Queue, which acts as a scheduler. As a result, UFS storage can reach speeds much faster than eMMC can. It also introduces new features such as: Write Booster, which is an SLC non-volatile cache that increases write speed, DeepSleep, which is a low power state targeting lower-cost systems that share UFS voltage regulators, And Performance Throttling Notification, which tells the device if performance is being throttled by heat. With these new features, along with its current max speed, the gap between SSDs and UFS is getting slimmer and slimmer. That being said, does the regular user really take advantage of all of UFS 3's speed and features? Read more in our articles including "Universal Flash Storage (UFS) Explained" and "Benchmarks Quickly Explained: Cinebench".