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 a Samsung SSD Global Summit comes product announcements. Those don't happen until tomorrow (late tonight for you folks back in the states), but I did notice a clue on the cover of our itinerary folder:
See it? Here, let me help:
A VNAND powered M.2 (presumably NVMe) SSD is *exactly* the thing I have been waiting for Samsung to unleash into the wild ever since we reviewed their NVMe SM951. Given that Samsung's prior M.2 offerings gave the Intel SSD 750 a run for its money all while consuming half the power, and did so with Samsung's older 2D Planar NAND, you can bet a VNAND version will be something to behold. Let's hope this new model is released as a consumer product and doesn't end up as OEM-channel unobtanium like the NVMe SM951 was!
Keep an eye out for additional posts from our coverage of the 2015 Samsung SSD Global Summit!