Toshiba company on the eve of Computex 2017 released its first massive NVMe SSD-drive on 64-layer flash memory with a vertical layout of cells 3D V-NAND (Toshiba uses its own name BiCS FLASH). Unfortunately - TLC, and not MLC NAND. The novelty is made in the form factor M.2 of the size 2280, communicates with the system via the PCI-Express 3.0 x4 interface and the NVMe protocol (without specifying the version). Customers will be offered three volumes - 256, 512 and 1024 GB.
Details about the used controller are not reported - the company habitually conceals this information. But, judging by the announced speeds (up to 3000 MB / s on read operations), it's probably about Marvell (current Phison controllers and Silicon Motion have lower performance). Of the technical characteristics, the implementation of SLC-caching algorithms on write operations is indicated.
The drive is unlikely to fall into free retail, but another important point: Toshiba XG3 ran a hardware platform, which then became the basis of Toshiba RD400 . By the way, Toshiba XG3 also come across in retail, but mostly in the secondary market, being removed from laptops when they are updated by ordinary users.
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