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’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 ...

Samsung announces the launch of an 800GB Z-SSD. The new SZ985 Z-SSD is one of the most advanced SSD s to date, but it isn’t for the home-user. The drive will power HPC and AI applications.

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.

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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 ...

The Z-height has typically been associated with the 2.5″ SSD form factor. As I covered in my January form factor blog, the initial dimensions of SSDs were modeled after hard disk drives (HDDs).

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.

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.

This premium SSD is a single-port, four-lane device. Samsung Z-NAND is said to provide “10 times higher cell read performance than 3-bit V-NAND chips”, and is accompanied on the SZ985 by 1.5GB ...