{"id":93519,"date":"2016-06-01T09:54:58","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T07:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=93519"},"modified":"2016-06-01T09:56:12","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T07:56:12","slug":"samsung-unveils-the-smallest-512gb-ssd-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/93519-samsung-unveils-the-smallest-512gb-ssd-in-the-world","title":{"rendered":"Samsung unveils the smallest 512GB SSD in the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung has <a href=\"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/global\/samsung-mass-producing-industrys-first-512-gigabyte-nvme-ssd-in-a-single-bga-package-for-more-flexibility-in-computing-device-design?CID=AFL-hq-mul-0813-11000279\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>unveiled<\/strong> <\/a>the PM971-NVMe 512GB SSD, which is the\u00a0smallest solid state drive it has ever created.<\/p>\n<p>The SSD is smaller than a <strong>postage stamp<\/strong> and includes the following specifications:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>512GB<\/strong> NAND Flash storage<\/li>\n<li>Controller<\/li>\n<li><strong>4GB<\/strong> LPDDR4\u00a0RAM<\/li>\n<li><strong>1.5GBps<\/strong> read speeds<\/li>\n<li><strong>800MBps<\/strong> write speeds<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The\u00a0PM971-NVMe is created using 20nm NAND chips which are triple-level cell, but use a portion of as a write buffer.<\/p>\n<p>The tiny SSD will be available in 128GB, 256GB, and 512GB models.<\/p>\n<p>Due to its small size, the\u00a0PM971-NVMe is well-suited to be implemented within notebooks and mobile devices such as tablets.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0PM971-NVMe SSD will be available in<strong> June 2016<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to AMD reveals powerful, high-value Radeon RX 480 \u2013 pricing and specifications\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/93509-amd-reveals-powerful-high-value-radeon-rx-480-pricing-and-specifications.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">AMD reveals powerful, high-value Radeon RX 480 \u2013 pricing and specifications<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Best gaming ADSL prices in South Africa\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/broadband\/93499-best-gaming-adsl-prices-in-south-africa.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Best gaming ADSL prices in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Sexpo South Africa to host R20,000 sexy cosplay competition\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/93505-sexpo-south-africa-to-host-r20000-sexy-cosplay-competition.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Sexpo South Africa to host R20,000 sexy cosplay competition<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung&#8217;s new 512GB SSD is smaller than a postage stamp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":93521,"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":[8585,7],"tags":[19033,31,16188,1435,2101,19031],"class_list":["post-93519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","category-hardware","tag-512gb","tag-active","tag-nvme","tag-samsung","tag-ssd","tag-tiny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93519","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\/232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}