{"id":122197,"date":"2017-11-20T12:40:24","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T10:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=122197"},"modified":"2017-11-20T12:41:12","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T10:41:12","slug":"samsungs-new-z-nand-ssd-will-take-on-intel-optane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/122197-samsungs-new-z-nand-ssd-will-take-on-intel-optane","title":{"rendered":"Samsung&#8217;s new Z-NAND SSD will take on Intel Optane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung has revealed the\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.samsung.com\/us\/labs\/pdfs\/collateral\/Samsung_Z-NAND_Technology_Brief_v5.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">specifications<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0of its new SZ985 SSD.<\/p>\n<p>The SSD offers similar performance to Intel\u2019s Optane SSDs and will reportedly be cheaper.<\/p>\n<p>The device boasts Samsung\u2019s Z-NAND flash memory, and is said to offer superior capacity and read\/write performance to Intel\u2019s P4800X Optane SSDs.<\/p>\n<p>Its latency is 12-20 microseconds, which is\u00a0slightly higher than the Optane drive\u2019s 10-microsecond latency \u2013 but much lower than other flash SSDs.<\/p>\n<p>The SZ985 is aimed at enterprise customers, with more consumer and enterprise Z-NAND drives expected in the future.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business-telecoms\/237802-samsung-mobile-south-africa-director-stepping-down.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Samsung mobile South Africa director stepping down<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung has revealed the\u00a0specifications\u00a0of its new SZ985 SSD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":122199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[24035,1435,3863,25387],"class_list":["post-122197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-optane","tag-samsung","tag-solid-state-drive","tag-z-nand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}