Built on its new Z-NAND Flash chip technology, a new high performance storage controller and a huge 1.5GB LPDDR4 DRAM cache, Samsung’s new SZ985 Z-SSD is specified to deliver 1.7X faster random ...

Samsung have just announced the launch of their first Z-NAND product - their answer to Intel’s 3D XPoint SSD tech and Optane SSDs. The aptly-named Z-SSD SZ985 is an 800GB SSD that offers ...

The Z-SSD family is a four-lane NVMe PCIe device that fits into a single slot, while its Z-NAND chips have roughly 10 times the cell read performance of their current 3-bit V-NAND counterparts.

“Samsung’s Z-SSD shares the fundamental structure of V-NAND and has a unique circuit design and controller that can maximize performance, with four times faster latency and 1.6 times better ...

The SZ985 800GB PCIe Z-SSD will target the storage needs of artificial intelligence (AI), big data and Internet of Things (IoT) applications. This premium SSD is a single-port, four-lane device.