QLC SSDs aren’t as bad as their reputation suggests.

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This article is part of the Technology Insight series, made possible with funding from Intel. In case you hadn’t noticed, solid-state drives keep getting bigger and faster. Back in 2008, a ...

Samsung may not be the first to release a QLC SSD, but the 860 QVO is the first mainstream SATA drive to try and deliver on the promise of high-capacity solid state drives at a price to rival large ...

Samsung is preparing a PCIe 5.0 SSD that pairs quad-level cell (QLC) flash memory with a RISC-V-based controller, a ...

It's another historic day for consumer SSDs. Today Intel begins selling the first consumer NVMe SSD with 4-bit per cell flash technology (QLC). Like 3-bit per cell (TLC) before it, there is a lot of ...

Intel and Micron have delivered the first-ever Quad-Level Cell (QLC) NAND flash memory, which offers 33 percent higher density than today's technology. QLC stores four bits of data per cell compared ...

SLC, MLC, TLC and here comes QLC. Cheap NAND flash for the masses, and guess what happened? Specs from Intel's next-generation consumer NVMe products are spotted online. Some TLC M2 based unit, but ...

The Intel SSD 660p will shake up the low end of the NVMe market with very good performance at an unprecedented price, even though write speeds can drop precipitously to 100MBps when very large amounts ...

Micron is all set to be first to market with quad-level cell (QLC) flash drives. Its 5210 QLC Enterprise SATA SSD product will take aim at a niche market of data currently kept on spinning disk in the ...

Samsung has developed a new SSD controller based on the open-source RISC-V instruction set, moving away from the Arm ISA in some of its SSD controllers. With the introduction of the BM9K1 PCIe 5.0 QLC ...