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Quote: Theoretically speaking, the difference between UFS 2.0 and UFS 2.1 objectively exists and is large enough for phone OEMs to tout the superiority of one over the other. Practically speaking, most average users and even smartphone enthusiasts will not be able to distinguish between the performance of UFS 2.0 versus UFS 2.1, unless they compare both side-by-side. In real life and daily usage, UFS 2.0 will unlikely be the bottleneck in your flagship experience. Had Samsung gone for eMMC 5.1, the memory specification would have had a much more profound and noticeable impact on your experience. Thus as a silver lining, Samsung is only juggling between UFS 2.0 and UFS 2.1 for now.

Original Post: Interesting fact: on their website, Samsung used to list S8/S8+ with UFS 2.1 flash storage, however now they have changed the specs and listing only UFS without specifying whether its 2.0 or 2.1. See below screenshots of Samsung official website, I took the first screenshot 1 week ago and the 2nd today. Samsung has silently removed the UFS 2.1 line. Now we know that some S8s are using ufs 2.1 chips while others using ufs 2.0 only. Luckily there's a way to exactly identify your flash chip. Download any terminal emulator from play store.

For example this one will work then type in this in the terminal window. Code: THGBF7G9L4LBA TRA THGBF7G9L4LBA TRCThese two are made by Toshiba, the one ends with IR something is UFS 2.1 while the one ends with TR is UFS 2.0. There might be slight variations in the model no., anyway it's the letter I and T that matters.

Alternatively you can use to test the speed of your flash chip. Go kart go turbo download. For the sequential read speed, I believe that S8 with UFS 2.0 usually fall in 500MB/s range, while those with UFS 2.1 can get close to 800MB/s.

However keep in mind that this is not the accurate way to go, if you really want the truth, pls use terminal and the code. For example results from my UFS 2.1 S8: Please test your own S8 and let us know what you get. I have TRA ending on mine so assume that's UFS 2.0 I have a Verizon S8.

While obviously faster is always better - how much difference does it make in real world? I don't spend time running benchmarks all day so curious if anybody has both devices accessible and do some real world tests like launching apps, multitasking, etc. ---------- Post added at 08:55 AM ---------- Previous post was at 08:53 AM ---------- I wouldn't be surprised if Samsung used UFS 2.1 for their own Exynos devices and possibly for Qualcomm S8+s since more expensive. Anybody here have an S8 qualcomm version with UFS 2.1? My guess is most S8 Qualcomm (regular) are using UFS 2.1 storage and S8+ Qualcomm are using UFS2.1.