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SSD enthusiasts know all about SLC, MLC, and TLC, but there are some new acronyms in SSD town: V-NAND and CTF. Samsung announced in a press release last night that it has begun mass production of “3D ...

SLC NAND offers the highest speed and durability because it stores only 1 bit per cell. It's widely recognized as the most reliable and longest-lasting NAND type. While SLC is now rare in consumer ...

We throw a lot of terminologies around when we report on solid state drive storage and you probably noticed them all at some point. However, you might not know exactly what they are, what they mean, ...

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LSI SandForce controllers were the catalyst that helped SSDs evolve from a niche application to the mainstream market we see today. There were precious few SSD's on the market, and even fewer SSD ...

The Samsung 860 EVO has convinced us: It is now safe to equate TLC (Triple-Level-Cell) SSDs with top-notch SATA performance. TLC-NAND SSDs used to be more about affordability, but the 860 EVO is the ...

The floating-gate transistor is the building block of all flash technology. In the floating-gate transistor, an insulating oxide layer resides between the floating gate and the substrate. When voltage ...

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