Samsung’s new Z-NAND SSD will take on Intel Optane

Samsung has revealed the specifications of its new SZ985 SSD.

The SSD offers similar performance to Intel’s Optane SSDs and will reportedly be cheaper.

The device boasts Samsung’s Z-NAND flash memory, and is said to offer superior capacity and read/write performance to Intel’s P4800X Optane SSDs.

Its latency is 12-20 microseconds, which is slightly higher than the Optane drive’s 10-microsecond latency – but much lower than other flash SSDs.

The SZ985 is aimed at enterprise customers, with more consumer and enterprise Z-NAND drives expected in the future.

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