It's another historic day for consumer SSDs. Today Intel begins selling the first consumer NVMe SSD with 4-bit per cell flash technology (QLC). Like 3-bit per cell (TLC) before it, there is a lot of ...
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Samsung may not be the first to release a QLC SSD, but the 860 QVO is the first mainstream SATA drive to try and deliver on the promise of high-capacity solid state drives at a price to rival large ...
This article is part of the Technology Insight series, made possible with funding from Intel. In case you hadn’t noticed, solid-state drives keep getting bigger and faster. Back in 2008, a ...
Intel and Micron have delivered the first-ever Quad-Level Cell (QLC) NAND flash memory, which offers 33 percent higher density than today's technology. QLC stores four bits of data per cell compared ...
The Intel SSD 660p will shake up the low end of the NVMe market with very good performance at an unprecedented price, even though write speeds can drop precipitously to 100MBps when very large amounts ...
If you’ve ever done any research before buying an SSD, or scoured tech forums or Reddit, you’ve probably noticed that pretty much no one is a fan of QLC SSDs. While they do fall behind SSDs that use ...
The NAND layer race just cleared 300. SK hynix announced last week that it has begun shipping the PQC21, the world’s first ...
The S22 QLC is the first QLC (4-bit NAND) SSD we’ve seen that doesn’t slow down during long writes. It’s also dirt-cheap for an SSD. Despite a few hitches, it’s a good budget SSD choice. The Addlink ...
Kioxia Corporation today announced KIOXIA EG7 Series SSDs, the first client solution to adopt Kioxia’s BiCS FLASH™ generation ...