Samsungs new 990 SSD has dropped — new features, price, and where to buy
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Cheaper, more power-efficient PCIe Gen 4 SSDs up to 2TB keep pushing high-performance storage into commodity territory. For builders, that’s another nudge to design local-first, cache-heavy workloads — the bottleneck is shifting further away from disk and toward network and memory.
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