Samsung has teamed up with AMD to release new UHD monitors equipped with AMD’s FreeSync technology. The collaboration was announced yesterday at AMD’s Future of Compute event in Singapore where Samsung confirmed to bring the monitors sometime in March 2015. Initially, Samsung will offer two models with FreeSync – the UD590 (23.6-inch and 28-inch variants) […]
Hardware
Samsung releases firmware update to fix 840 EVO SSD performance issue
We first caught wind of 840 EVO SSD’s read speed issue last month and now Samsung, true to their word has released a firmware update to fix the performance issue. 840 EVO SSD users can download the fix from Samsung’s website and as Anand Tech points out, the fix is more than a firmware update […]
Samsung launches SD590C Curved Monitor in US
Samsung has now announced the pricing and availability of SD590C curved monitor in the American market. The 27-inch Full HD monitor sports a curved display with a curvature of 400R, thus enabling a wider field of view than a regular TV. Additionally, the monitor has a high brightess of 350nits, 3000:1 Dynamic Contrast Ratio, integrated […]
Samsung’s 3.2TB NVMe SSD now in mass production
Samsung has begun mass production of its 3.2TB NVMe SSDs based on Samsung’s proprietary 3D V-NAND technology. Samsung says the new drive will be used in high-end enterprise server systems that will drastically improve performance and reliability. The new NVMe PCIe SSD, SM1715 is a follow up to the award winning XS1715 SSD and comes […]
Samsung’s 840 EVO SSD has a read speed issue but a fix is on the way
Samsung’s 840 EVO series SSDs are facing a peculiar problem that affects the read speed of the SSD. According to a forum thread, a bug present in the 840 EVO causes the read performance of the drive to drop drastically and it affects only the blocks that have data older than a month. Good thing […]