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Samsung Mass Producing Vertical NAND With Higher Performance and Reliability
Today, Samsung announced that it has begun mass production of a new kind of 3D NAND flash memory that offers up higher reliability and write performance versus traditional 2d “planar” technologies. The...
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Samsung Launches First V-NAND SSD For Enterprise Market
Last week, Samsung announced that it had started producing a new stackable NAND flash memory called V-NAND, or vertical NAND. The new 3D V-NAND would initially be available in 128Gb (Gigabit) chips,...
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FMS 2014: Samsung announces 3D TLC VNAND, Storage Intelligence initiative
Just minutes ago at the Flash Memory Summit, Samsung announced the production of 32-layer TLC VNAND:This is the key to production of a soon-to-be-released 850 EVO, which should bring the excellent...
View ArticlePodcast #312 - Thecus N2560 NAS, ASUS STRIX GTX 780, Flash Media Summit News...
PC Perspective Podcast #312 - 08/07/2014Join us this week as we discuss the Thecus N2560 NAS, ASUS STRIX GTX 780, Flash Media Summit News and more!You can subscribe to us through iTunes and you can...
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Samsung 850 Pro Full Capacity Roundup - Capacity Independent Speed
Given that we are anticipating a launch of the Samsung 850 EVO very shortly, it is a good time to back fill on the complete performance picture of the 850 Pro series. We have done...
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Samsung's 32-layer VNAND dissected by TechInsights, analysed by 3DInCities
Since Samsung announced VNAND, we have been followingitsdevelopments with great interest. You might have seen some of Andrew Walker's cool mock ups of what this new VNAND might look like:Once a...
View ArticlePodcast #330 - MSI GT72 Dominator Pro, 10 Days of Christmas, Mechanical...
PC Perspective Podcast #330 - 12/18/2014Join us this week as we discuss the MSI GT72 Dominator Pro, 10 Days of Christmas, Mechanical Keyboards and more!You can subscribe to us through iTunes and you...
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Samsung 850 EVO and Pro 2TB SATA SSD Review - Multi-terabyte Consumer SSDs...
Introduction:Where are all the 2TB SSDs? It's a question we've been hearing since they started to go mainstream seven years ago. While we have seen a few come along on the enterprise side as far back...
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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 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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