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Samsung Announces VNAND Powered 4TB PM863 and 2TB SM863 SATA Enterprise SSDs
Take the Samsung 850 Pro and 850 EVO, add some Tantalum Capacitors for enhanced power loss protection, tune their firmware for enterprise workloads and QoS, and what do you get?...you get the Samsung...
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FMS 2015: *UPDATED* Samsung Adds Layers to its 3D VNAND, Doubling Capacity...
FMS 2015: Samsung Adds Layers to its 3D VNAND, Doubling Capacity While Reducing Power ConsumptionSamsung recently added 2TB capacity parts to their 850 EVO SATA SSDs, but today’s announcement may...
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FMS 2015: Samsung's New 256Gbit VNAND Enables 16TB PM1633a Datacenter SSD
I get these emails and comments all the time - "I want a larger capacity SSD". Ok, here ya go:Samsung's earlier 48-layer VNAND announcement was exciting, but we already knew about it going into the...
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Good Morning (Night) From Seoul! New Samsung SSDs Are Coming!
As I hinted during last week's podcast, I am in Seoul, Korea to cover an upcoming press conference.To those keen readers who have followed my previoustrips here, it can only mean one thing -..and with...
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Samsung Launches 950 PRO - 300,000 IOPS and 2.5 GB/sec from a M.2 V-NAND SSD!
I’ve been waiting a long time for Samsung to put their V-NAND flash memory into a PCIe connected SSD, and such a product has just been officially announced at the Samsung SSD Global Summit.Samsung’s...
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Samsung Announces New Branding and Future SSD Capacity Expansion with their...
During yesterday's SSD Summit, obscured by their 950 PRO launch was new branding for their 32 (and now 48) layer Vertical NAND technology:This new branding is more in line with what folks were calling...
View ArticlePodcast #368 - full GTX 980s in notebooks, Samsung's NVMe 950 Pro, Jim Keller...
PC Perspective Podcast #368 - 09/24/2015Join us this week as we discuss full GTX 980s in notebooks, Samsung's NVMe 950 Pro, Jim Keller leaving AMD and more!You can subscribe to us through iTunes and...
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Samsung 950 PRO 256GB and 512GB M.2 NVMe PCIe SSD Review
Introduction:This is it. This is the day we have been waiting for. Ever since we feasted our eyes on the NVMe version of the Samsung SM951, we’ve been begging Samsung to release this as a consumer...
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CES 2016: Fasetto Teases Link SSD Storage Platform
Fasetto is a company previously known as one of those cross-platform file-sharing web apps, but I was shocked to see them with a space at CES Unveiled. Companies without physical products tend to fall...
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What Micron's Upcoming 3D NAND Means for SSD Capacity, Performance, and Cost
You may have seen a wave of Micron 3D NAND news posts these past few days, and while many are repeating the 11-month old news with talks of 10TB/3.5TB on a 2.5"/M.2 form factor SSDs, I'm here to dive...
View ArticlePodcast #392 - Samsung 850 EVO V2, VR Build Guides, the End of Tick-Tock, and...
PC Perspective Podcast #392 - 03/24/2016Join us this week as we discuss the Samsung 850 EVO V2, VR Build Guides, the End of Tick-Tock, and more!You can subscribe to us through iTunes and you can still...
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Samsung 960 PRO 2TB M.2 NVMe SSD Full Review - Even Faster!
Introduction:Just under a year ago we published our review of the Samsung 950 PRO, their first foray into NVMe SSD territory. Today we have a 960 PRO, which strives to be more revolutionary than...
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More test results of the new Samsung 960 Pro, if your brain still has the...
Al has already exhaustively covered the new Samsung 960 Pro in his latest article, which also happens to be the premiere of PC Perspective's new storage testing suite. An in depth discussion of the...
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Samsung 960 EVO 250GB and 1TB M.2 NVMe SSD Full Review - TurboWrite Squared
Introduction:Since Samsung’s announcement of the 960 Series SSDs, I have been patiently waiting not for the 960 PRO (reviewed a few weeks back), but for the 960 EVO. It is the EVO, in my opinion, that...
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FMS 2017: Samsung Announces QLC V-NAND, 16TB NGSFF SSD, Z-SSD V2, Key Value
As is typically the case for Flash Memory Summit, the Samsung keynote was chock full of goodies:Samsung kicked off by stating there are a good 5 years of revisions left in store for their V-NAND line,...
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