V-NAND
After Samsung's earlier product page snafu, the company is officially launching their next-generation mainstream client SSD today. The 990 EVO will be available in both 1TB and 2TB capacities, and offers an interesting mix of both PCIe Gen 5 and PCIe Gen 4 support by allowing up to 2 lanes of PCIe connectivity at Gen 5 speeds, or up to 4 lanes at Gen 4 and below. The release of the 990 EVO marks the return of the EVO SSD brand after it was quietly put aside during the 980 generation, when Samsung's sole non-PRO drive was the vanilla 980 SSD. Consequently, Samsung's own performance comparisons for the new drive are against the most recent EVO, the 970 EVO Plus, though similar to how the...
Samsung Starts Mass Production of QLC V-NAND-Based SSDs
Samsung on Monday announced the industry’s first consumer SSDs based on QLC V-NAND memory. The drives will be available with capacities of up to 4 TB and will target...
6 by Anton Shilov on 8/6/2018
Samsung Begins Mass Production Of 96L 3D NAND
Samsung has started mass production of their fifth generation of 3D NAND flash memory, which they brand as V-NAND. This new generation bumps the layer count from 64 up...
26 by Billy Tallis on 7/9/2018
The Mainstream Phoenix Rises: Samsung's 970 EVO (500GB & 1TB) SSDs Reviewed
The new Samsung 970 EVO isn't their top of the line consumer SSD, but it might as well be. With their latest 3D TLC NAND flash memory and SSD...
68 by Billy Tallis on 4/24/2018
Samsung Launches Energy-Efficient PM883 SSD with SATA 3.3, LPDDR4
Samsung has introduced its new lineup of datacenter-class SSDs that uses its latest V-NAND flash memory and a SATA interface. The new drives offer up to 7680 GB capacity...
9 by Anton Shilov on 3/20/2018
Power Outage at Samsung’s Fab Destroys 3.5% of Global NAND Flash Output For March
A half-hour power outage at Samsung’s fab near Pyeongtaek, South Korea, disrupted production and damaged tens of thousands of processed wafers. Media reports claim that the outage destroyed as...
62 by Anton Shilov on 3/16/2018
Samsung 30.72 TB SSDs: Mass Production of PM1643 Begins
Update 2/21: Adding power consumption figures for the PM1643 drive, new features. Samsung this week announced that it has started mass production of its PM1643-series SSDs. These are monstrous data...
22 by Anton Shilov on 2/20/2018
Samsung Announces 860 PRO And 860 EVO SATA SSDs
After more than three years of ruling the consumer SATA SSD market, the Samsung 850 series is being replaced. The 850 PRO and 850 EVO that first brought 3D...
21 by Billy Tallis on 1/23/2018
Samsung Starts Production of 512 GB UFS NAND Flash Memory: 64-Layer V-NAND, 860 MB/s Reads
Samsung on Tuesday announced that it had initiated volume production of UFS NAND flash memory chips with 512 GB capacity based on its latest 64-layer 512 Gb V-NAND. The...
11 by Anton Shilov on 12/5/2017
The Samsung SSD 850 120GB Review: A Little TLC for SATA
The latest entry level SSD from Samsung has no suffix and bears neither the PRO or EVO appellation. It is a new entry-level SATA SSD featuring Samsung's latest 64-layer...
31 by Billy Tallis on 11/27/2017
Samsung Portable SSD T5 Review: 64-Layer V-NAND Debuts in Retail
Samsung has been an active participant in the high-performance external SSD market with their Portable SSD series. The T1 was introduced in early 2015, while the T3 came out...
38 by Ganesh T S on 8/15/2017
Samsung At Flash Memory Summit: 96-Layer V-NAND, MLC Z-NAND, New Interfaces
At Flash Memory Summit this week, Samsung is sharing details of their storage technology roadmaps and showing off several prototypes. Last year, Samsung announced their fourth generation of 3D NAND...
6 by Billy Tallis on 8/9/2017
Samsung’s Multi-Billion Fab in Pyeongtaek Starts Production of 64-Layer V-NAND
Samsung on Tuesday announced that it had started mass production of 64-layer V-NAND memory in its newly build fab in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, and the first batch had already...
17 by Anton Shilov on 7/6/2017
Samsung Announces 960 PRO And 960 EVO M.2 PCIe SSDs (Updated)
UPDATE: New features unveiled during the presentation and Q&A session are described below. Here at Samsung's SSD Global Summit in South Korea, the company has just officially unveiled their next...
138 by Billy Tallis on 9/21/2016
Samsung at Flash Memory Summit: 64-layer V-NAND, Bigger SSDs, Z-SSD
At Flash Memory Summit, Samsung announced their fourth generation of 3D NAND and several of the more obvious SSD upgrades it enables. Taking a page from Intel and Micron's...
51 by Billy Tallis on 8/11/2016
Samsung’s SSD 850 EVO 4 TB Now Available from Major Retailers
Samsung quietly added its 4 TB 850 EVO SSD model to the product to the lineup back in May (according to its own datasheet) without making any formal announcements...
29 by Anton Shilov on 7/22/2016
The Samsung 850 EVO 4TB SSD Review
The arrival of Samsung's 256Gb 48-layer 3D NAND has allowed the 850 EVO product line to expand once more with the introduction of the first 4TB consumer SSD: a...
145 by Billy Tallis on 7/11/2016
Samsung Begins Mass Production of PM971: Tiny BGA SSDs with 1500 MB/s Read Speed
Samsung this week said that it had begun mass production of its first SSDs in BGA form-factor. The PM971-NVMe tiny drive weighs about one gram, can store up to...
40 by Anton Shilov on 6/1/2016
Samsung Readies New Cost-Effective SSDs Featuring Maia Controller
Thanks to introduction of the PCIe-based M.2 form-factor and subsequent removal of SATA III bandwidth constraints, the evolution of high-performance SSDs has been quite spectacular in the recent years...
29 by Anton Shilov on 3/23/2016
Samsung Shows Off SM961 and PM961 SSDs: OEM Drives Get a Boost
At Samsung's annual SSD Forum Japan, the company has demonstrated two previously-unannounced high-performance client SSDs. The new SM961 and the PM961 drives are based on the company’s Polaris controller...
48 by Anton Shilov on 3/23/2016
Samsung Demos Its First BGA SSD: 1500 MB/s Read Speed and Tiny Package
In the recent years SSDs in M.2 form-factor have greatly reduced the amount of space required for storage sub-systems inside modern PCs. However, as computers get even smaller, there...
41 by Anton Shilov on 3/22/2016
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