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So Google is combining the slower UFS3.1 and UFS 4 in the models with higher storage capacity.
How does this make the phone any faster than just going with UFS4 in the first place? Even midrange phones for less than a third of the price ship with UFS4 (E.g. Oneplus Nord 4 256G, Poco X7).
(It's probably fine, you don't need the fastest flash for photos and videos. But the positivity of the article annoys me.)
They are using UFS3.1 in 128 GB, UFS4 in 256, ZUFS in 512 and above.
Apparently there has not been even a single phone with UFS4 in 128 GB, it's been 256+ only so sounds like there's a limitation there with the lower storages. And it's possible that ZUFS has similar limitation for 512+ GB I suppose, will have to wait and see as it seems to be new technology
There are some phones featuring 1TB of UFS4.0, e.g. the Galaxy S24 Ultra or the Motorola Edge 50 Ultra
Right but this ZUFS is new, this seems to be one of the first phones with that technology. UFS has existed before only for >=256 GB, so now we need confirmation if going forward ZUFS is only for >=512 GB... And also what on earth it exactly does because the article doesn't have much technical details, as in how exactly creating zones improves speeds
~~Basically it is storage tiering. The operating system and the apps use the faster storage, while for other data, the slower storage is used.~~
~~It's similar to PCs a few years ago that featured a SSD (e.g. 256 GB) and a HDD (e.g. 2 TB).~~
I don't know what google is trying to achive, but it's likely to cut costs and improve battery life. (If my assumption is true that the slower storage is cheaper and uses less energy).
No, that's not how it works. It will sort and write the data sequentially in zones instead of randomly increasing read and write speeds.
The android authority article does a better job of explaining it: https://www.androidauthority.com/google-pixel-10-storage-specs-3589059/