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Samsung made a MicroSD card that doesn't suck, but there's a problem

Samsung's new SD Express card is significantly faster than regular MicroSD cards, but it still isn't quite on the same level as UFS storage.

(Image credit: Nicholas Sutrich / Android Central)In Hardwired, AC Senior Editor Harish Jonnalagadda delves into all things hardware, including phones, storage servers, and routers. Brands could continue to offer MicroSD slots on their devices, but that would have meant a noticeable difference in performance between the onboard storage and expandable modules, or eschew the port altogether — which is what we ended up with. So when I got the LG G4 a decade ago, I decided to not bother with MicroSD cards at all and started backing up the data on my phone to external sources — Google Photos on the cloud, and a NAS within my home network.

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