Toshiba's XG6 SSDs put 96-layer NAND to good use
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When we reviewed Toshiba's XG5 NVMe SSD, it was one of the fastest drives we'd tested. Although that was the first drive we fondled that came equipped with Toshiba's 64-layer BiCS 3D flash memory, at the time Toshiba had already announced that it had 96-layer chips in development. That's been a year ago now, and the XG5's successor is here. Meet the Toshiba XG6 NVMe SSD. As you've no doubt already assumed, this drive uses fourth-generation TLC BiCS flash, stacking 96 layers of NAND cells in each chip.
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