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Silly. Samsung hasn't used high endurance quality NAND since the MLC 970 Pro. Those drives are a tank and plenty fast.

It is always ugly when a USA company has to lay people off. In China, when Apple has layoffs it means a child gets to go to school and see the sun - beautiful.

Ah. So this isn't news then. I figured the "news" was announcing something new involving support for boards using Skylake and Kaby processors. The limited updates for Z20, H270 came out a month ago.

I see the headline but I see none of the UEFI/bios updates. I checked about 6 Z170 boards and the most recent download is from 2018. Are they on global sites just not worldwide yet? I have no idea if I would even consider W11 but I'll try it.

I bet it can actually run USB too... unlike AMD cpus.

I must have reached knowledge obsolescence. I have no idea what I am looking at. For what it is, it looks like junk. I don't know how anyone can tell what channel mode this is in. If single, why? What would be the intent? To show you can run in single channel mode with this new DDR5 at crippled...

Exactly. AMD is new to computing and USB is complicated. USB protocols are incredibly demanding and it takes time for engineers to find a way to allocate enough computing power from the cripple AMD cores.

Appreciate the review and thoughts. The 980 Pro is a good product, no sense calling it trash as some have. I think "wasted an opportunity" are the right words. It just isn't a necessary must have boost from the 970 Pro thanks to mainstream nand. Nice latency numbers.

They've got enough money now, right? Designed in California, made nowhere near. Let the kids take a break in Zhengzhou!

I am only interested in performance in a "Pro" product meant for a desktop. The problem with TLC is the performance plummets under any load to nearly SATA levels. It tries to only "write" to the top layer and gradually move so you get bursts that are high and averages that are abysmal. TLC has...

That would be because the site referenced in this article is now redirecting and inaccessible. Perhaps they will drop the public-facing 3-bit spec as they got trashed on every tech site for using TLC in a Pro product. From the beginnings of SSD tech there was SLC, MLC, then came TLC and QLC...

That landed with a giant festering thud. Funny they call it 3-bit MLC where they call the 970 Pro 2-bit MLC like MLC is. No PR blitz, no early samples to match the launch, just a semi-hidden webpage revealing it is common zzzz TLC used in everything from value junk to ordinary mid-mainstream...

I love those "open issues". If you play Red Dead Redemption 2 in SLI and press ALT+Tab it may crash. Also, if you have a ASUS M45 notebook with Windows 8.1 update 2014-2 and play doom 3 in 680x480 windowed mode after sunset on a tuesday then press ctrl+alt+delete the task manager may appear full...

I'll add to the chorus of those that own a Toshiba laptop. It is a 2014 Haswell-based model and still works great with a screen and SSD upgrade. The IPS screen was an easy swap and people still say it is the best PC notebook screen they have seen. It is still adequately fast, has 8GB memory, an...

There isn't going to be herd immunity to covid19 if antibodies are dwindling in 4-8 weeks as has been found. It just has to be managed as even vaccines are only partially effective and that is if people even trust a rush job.