Samsung Z-SSDs draw a bead on Intel's Optane drives
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Intel's Optane SSDs and the 3D Xpoint memory they're based on offer impressive latency and quality-of-service consistency. Samsung is now ready to fire back with its own high-end SSDs based on a technology that it calls Z-NAND. The new drives are called Z-SSDs, and judging from what Samsung says, they're quite credible competitors for Intel and Micron's technology.
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