Solid State Drives... v2

[powerarmour]

I'm keeping an eye on the prices of these too, as I might buy four of them soon to replace spinning rust in my NAS.
What's good about the Crucial drives (at least for a NAS) is that they have capacitor shutdown protection.

[impar]

Greetings!

Intel Discontinues All Consumer Optane-Only SSD Products

https://www.techpowerup.com/277397/inte ... d-products

[Tabajara]

Greetings!

Intel Discontinues All Consumer Optane-Only SSD Products

https://www.techpowerup.com/277397/inte ... d-products

I wonder if there is a strong business case for enterprise users as well

[impar]

Greetings!

Samsung Introduces 870 EVO SATA SSDs: 128L TLC With an Updated Controller
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The 870 EVO uses the same sixth-generation Samsung V-NAND (3D NAND) that debuted in the high-end 980 PRO NVMe SSD. Officially, this is "1xx layers", but all signs point to it being 128L 3D NAND. This may sound unimpressive when Micron and SK hynix have already announced their 176-layer 3D NAND, but Samsung's NAND manufacturing process is arguably more advanced: they're still able to manufacture all 128L in one batch, while the competition have all long since adopted string stacking to split the process into two batches (eg. two groups of 88 layers).
The 870 EVO uses the same Samsung MKX controller we first saw with the 870 QVO.
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https://www.anandtech.com/show/16433/sa ... -sata-ssds