Samsung has announced its first zoned namespace SSD, the PM1731a, claiming up to four times greater endurance but supplying no performance information at all. Normally suppliers parade their SSDs with read and write IOPS and bandwidth numbers, but not this time. That’s because a zoned SSD has software-defined and host-managed sections for different kinds of … Continue reading Into the zone: Samsung launches its first zoned SSD at enterprises, hyperscalers