Samsung US has announced a new promotion wherein eligible buyers of the UD590 monitor or the 850 PRO Series SSD will get a free game from Ubisoft. Buyers will get a downloadable copy of Assassin’s Creed Unity with either of the purchases as Samsung is trying to attract gamers with monitor’s UHD resolution, 1ms response […]
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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’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 […]
Samsung unveils 850 PRO SSD with 3D V-NAND
Samsung just announced the new 850 PRO series SSDs at the 2014 Samsung SSD Global Summit in Seoul that features Samsung’s 3D V-NAND flash memory technology. 3D V-NAND will drastically improve the performance of the SSD and is targeted at users using high-end PCs or workstations. V-NAND is Samsung’s proprietary vertical cell structure tech that […]