DapuStor introduced a dual-mode firmware for its enterprise J5060 SSD that lets operators carve out a portion of QLC flash to run as pSLC, boosting speed at the cost of capacity. Depending on configuration, users sacrifice 6% to 20% of QLC storage in exchange for random-write performance that's over seven times faster, with the fixed region exposed as its own block device rather than a dynamic cache. The drive, shown at FMS 2026, spans 15.36TB to 122.88TB capacities but still has no announced price, customer, or release date.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-09-22
Testing by Bilibili channel Homolab found that the 1TB iPhone 18 Pro Max, which uses QLC NAND, suffers major performance drops compared to the 512GB TLC-based iPhone 18 Pro. Once its SLC and secondary TLC caches are exhausted, sustained writes fall to about 79.4 MB/s and can dip as low as 25.6 MB/s, worsening to just 1.1 MB/s once the drive is 60% full.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-09-21
Amazon is selling Samsung's new 990 PCIe 4.0 SSD in 2TB capacity for $339.99, a $190 cut from its $529.99 list price. The drive is a QLC variant of the 990 EVO Plus, built with Samsung's PiccoloQ controller and V9 QLC flash, offering full Gen 4 bandwidth. A 1TB version is also discounted, though the deal is time-limited.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-09-06
Samsung's new budget-tier 990 M.2 SSD, a QLC-based Gen 4 drive released after recent AI-driven storage price hikes, is now available at Amazon for $339 instead of its $529 list price. The 2TB model uses Samsung's PiccoloQ controller and V9 QLC flash, delivering performance close to the 990 EVO Plus with solid latency and bandwidth in testing.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-08-28
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