Samsung have long offered some of the fastest PCIe 3.0 based SSDs on the market, and the company is now ready to start shifting its attention to the [consumer] PCIe 4.0 market. The folks at AnandTech were able to lay eyes on Samsung’s upcoming 980 Pro M.2 NVMe SSD, and it will take full advantage […]
Samsung continues to stay ahead of the pack by beginning production of the industry’s first 100-layer V-NAND aimed at enterprise SSDs. Samsung has started mass production on solid state drives (SDDs) that feature the company’s sixth-generation 256GB three-bit vertical NAND memory. This means the drives come with an industry first 100 layers of NAND cells, […]
Apple has cut the prices of SSD upgrades across much of its Mac lineup. Rather than ditching a feature like Touch ID, Apple went with a more affordable solid state drive that isn’t quite as fast as its predecessor in terms of read speeds. Apple last week refreshed its base model MacBook Air and MacBook […]
Solid-state drives have become remarkably affordable over the past few years. When we posted our first SSD architecture discussion piece, back in 2014, SSDs of 240-256GB capacities were easily between £100 and £150, depending on drive. Large capacity SSDs (480GB+) were not really affordable for most users. Huge change, considering they were easily 3x that […]