Samsung's Z-NAND SSDs emerged in the channel under the 983 ZET name. The new series sports lower specifications than the SZ985 SSDs that shipped directly to data center customers a year prior.

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 ...

Samsung earlier revealed their candidate, Z-NAND which was announced last year. Samsung is not ready to unveil their first product based on Z-NAND, the aptly named Z-SSD.

“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 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.

The new single port, four-lane Z-SSD features Z-NAND chips that provide 10 times higher cell read performance than 3-bit V-NAND chips, along with 1.5GB LPDDR4 DRAM and a high-performance controller.

As you can see, the Z-Drive is essentially 4 OCZ Vertex series SSDs in a RAID configuration, coupled with a PCI Express RAID controller, all sandwiched neatly together in a single slot PCIe card.

Samsung Electronics has launched an 800GB solid state drive, the SZ985 Z-SSD, aimed at supercomputing, the firm announced. The new offering boasts five times less latency than of NVMe SSDs and is ...