IBM's Andy Walls participated in a Moor Insights and Strategy fireside chat recently, revealing how they have improved the performance and lifetime of QLC flash in their FlashSystem 9200 all-flash arrays. A…
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Sabrent have released a Phison E16 controlled PCIe 4.0 Rocket SSD, which uses Micron QLC flash and a bit of DRAM onboard to bring the read speed up to almost 5000MBs. It…
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KIOXIA Corporation (formerly Toshiba Memory Corporation) announced that it will begin sampling the fifth generation of its BiCS 3D NAND flash technology for select applications in Q1 2020. Developed...
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Intel has shared information about Optane memory H10, a new product that combines Optane memory with Intel QLC NAND on the same M.2 device. Not offered as a standalone product (at least…
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Team Group and ASUS have ... collaborated ... to bring you a new TUF branded SSD with all the RGBs you could want. Inside is 64 layer 3D TLC NAND from Micron,…
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Once we saw Intel launch QLC flash installed in their recent 660p M.2 part, I had a feeling that Micron would not be far behind, and that feeling has been confirmed with…
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The Crucial P1 SSD marks two firsts for the company, their first NVMe drive as well as their first SSD using QLC flash. The drive differs from Samsung's QVO in...
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Samsung have jumped up the alphabet, going from EVO to QVO with their new lower cost QLC based SSD family. The 4TB model Allyn reviewed sells for $600, not bad...
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With recent QLC SSD launches like the Intel 660P and Crucial P1, folks may have been wondering when Samsung would jump on the QLC bandwagon. I'm happy to report...
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PC Perspective Podcast #509 - 08/16/18 Join us this week for discussion on Modded Thinkpads, EVGA SuperNOVA PSUs, and more! You can subscribe to us through iTunes and you...
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Earlier this week Samsung announced that it has begun mass production on its first consumer solid state drive based on QLC (4 bits per cell) V-NAND. According to the company, the initial…
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Introduction: Flash Memory Summit 2018 is on, and it's rapidly looking like the theme of the year is 'QLC'. QLC stands for Quad Level Cell, which is a bit...
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Lots of good stuff coming out of Intel's press event earlier today. First up is Optane, now (finally and officially) in a DIMM form factor!: We have seen and tested Optane in several…
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In tandem with Micron's launch of their new enterprise QLC SSDs, there is a broader technology announcement coming out of Intel today. This release covers the fact that Intel and...
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For those that study how flash memory stores bits, Quad Level Cell technology is a tricky thing to pull off in production. You are taking a single NAND Flash cell and change…
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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…
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PC Perspective Podcast #461 - 08/03/17 Join us for AMD Ryzen 3, Threadripper, Logitech Powerplay, and more! You can subscribe to us through iTunes and you can still access it directly through...
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A month ago, WD and Toshiba each put out releases related to their BiCS 3D Flash memory. WD announced 96 layers (BiCS4) as their next capacity node, while Toshiba announced them reliably storing…
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