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Grandmaster flash Samsung dominated SSD market in 3Q2018

David Pearce

SSD has become more essential since recent rounds of anti-Spectre/Meltdown patches seem to have made PC disk access blocking on multiple cores. My I5s have become totally unresponsive with >95% system idle just because a Windows update file is downloading and frequently accessing the harddrive.

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