calling it a "drive" at this stage (and speed) really is a bit legacy isnt it?
Intel doubles capacity and speed of PCIe flash card
Intel has near-doubled the capacity and speed of its DC P3600 PCIe NVMe flash card with a DC P3608 refresh. It’s doubled the number of PCIe lanes from 4 to 8 and upped the maximum capacity from 2TB to 4TB, while still using 20nm MLC flash – the HET variety – in the P3608’s case. The net effect is to boost both IOPS and …
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Thursday 1st October 2015 11:46 GMT Ragarath
It's called a solid state drive. Why is that any different than calling it a flash card or a disk drive a, well a disk drive?
Would you prefer they called it "A device for storing files in non-volatile memory chips"?
Everyone knows what a "drive" is, the explaination above but in a short format. If you like it drives file storage for the OS.
Why is a device driver called a driver?
I could go on but feel it pointless.
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